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4 Gig in new Prec 490 showing as 3 Gig?

Subject: 4 Gig in new Prec 490 showing as 3 Gig?
From: kristian.hermansen at gmail.com (Kristian Hermansen)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:41:53 -0400
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.64L.0705021536240.28916@no-knife.mit.edu>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.64L.0705021536240.28916@no-knife.mit.edu>

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have 4 gig RAM installed in a brand new Dell Precision Workstation 490
> (BIOS confirms this) but both Win XP 32-bit and Knoppix 5.1.1 show 3 Gig
> available.
> 
> What happened to the last 1 gig of memory?

Hrmm, got PAE enabled?  Or is the last stick just not seated properly?
Doesn't happen to be 4 x 1GB sticks :-)
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