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https://www.centos.org – I agree. The amount of RAM is not a problem as far as any CentOS limit. Seems more like it is somehow hardware/BIOS related. Have you checked that you are using the latest BIOS? Did you try ins... [by pschaff] (Distributions)

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Submitted by suki on 02/21/2010

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Hi.

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FW170J, the standard configuration is with 4GB RAM.

I made a fresh install 2 days ago, everything was working fine, this release is very good.

Today I made a memory upgrade, now my laptop have 8GB RAM. I bought the memory from All4Memory (8GB DDR2-800 (PC2-6400)).

Why the heck don't motherboard and BIOS manufacturers display the BIOS version in a better place? They could display it on one of the BIOS setup screens - is that just too "far out" and crazy?

problem with CentOs 5.4 3 years 14 weeks ago

pschaff is a crazy man Has nothing to do with bios [by 5aled09]

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a HP Compaq nc8430.

I've just increased the memory from 2Gb to the max of 4Gb. In the BIOS the amount of memory showing is 4Gb and memory test passed OK. However, when I check how much memory is installed in the System Details, it is only showing 3.3Gb.

Anyone know why this is? Thanks.

I changed settings in BIOS for my display adapter which in turn has effects on my display. Currently my display has only one option for resolution setting 640x480. 1) I did reset my BIOS 2) deleted monitor* file in ~/.config/ path

but still the issue exist and not resolved. Need help to fix this issue at the earliest. Please help

laptop lenovo G580 os Ubuntu 12.04

-regards, Manju

Can't install CentOS 6.3 26 weeks 4 days ago

I would check for BIOS updates for the machine and also for any BIOS options that might relate to memory detection. Since I guess you can boot up a certain distance in order to see a message saying... [by TrevorH]

I am running Arch on my Asus Zenbook UX31A and am having issues getting acpi to report battery information. There are a few errors which seems like some sort of conflict I don't fully understand which I assume are related.

I have ASUS P5Q Pro mboard with 8 GB ram, (4 x 2gb sticks). Memory remap enabled. Installed 64bit 12.04 ubuntu. Often restart or shutdown or boot would hang within ubuntu. BIOS says I have 8192MB. Memtest 86+ fails with 8GB and memory remap enabled. If I disable memory remap bios says I have 7423MB, memtest does not fail and ubuntu 64bit boots, shuts down and restarts every time.

I have 100+ Linux machines that I need to update the BIOS on to resolve a hardware issue.

The only way I have now is to send the BIOS update on a USB stix and have a person at that location run a command to update the BIOS.:(

Does anyone know of a way I can do this from the Linux command line?

BIOS: Phoenix O/S: SuSE 9SLED