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drn

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1024 mb ram dont work
« on: 28 October 2003, 08:26 »
recently i bought 2 512mb ram chips and placed them both into my computer (asus p4b533, 2g, mandrake 9.1 and windows xp) it worked fine with xp but when i went into mandrake it would'nt boot upto kde, it just gos to a command prompt screen (i dont know what its called in linux, cmd prpt). But when i removed one of the chips it worked fine.
Any suggestions on what the problem is?
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« Reply #1 on: 28 October 2003, 14:29 »
You may need to recompile the kernel to support that much ram.
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« Reply #2 on: 28 October 2003, 21:04 »
Never had this problem, never tried Mandrake though (at least, not on this pc) but 1024Mb RAM was never a problem with SuSE (7.x/8.x).
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« Reply #3 on: 28 October 2003, 22:10 »
I think by default the mandrake kernel doesn't support it.
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« Reply #4 on: 28 October 2003, 23:01 »
Mandrake is a turd OS (IMHO)
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« Reply #5 on: 29 October 2003, 03:03 »
It will work, you shouldn't have to recompile a kernel.

Just simply install the enterprise kernel.  (It should be on the install CD's)

It's called "kernel-enterprise".

Then you should be able to use all 1 GB of your RAM.
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« Reply #6 on: 29 October 2003, 08:01 »
Thank you Captain Obvious.
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