[kwlug-disc] 64bit upgrade bugs

[Chris Irwin]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:10, Insurance Squared Inc.
<gcooke at insurancesquared.com> wrote:
> Yes, looks like there's something called a PCI memory hole.  It also looks
> like I'm not getting my 1/2 gig of ram back :).

There is nothing in the BIOS to enable memory remapping or anything
along those lines?

>From what I understand (and Rob's link seems mentions as well), the
problems with with 4GB ram & 64-bit (or PAE) was specifically an intel
thing, where older memory controllers were sometimes still 32-bit. AMD
was supposed to not have this issue as their memory controller was
included on the CPU package (which intel also does now since the i*
models).

I'm assuming this is for the 'ma78lmt-s2' motherboard and Athlon II
CPU you posted about a few days ago. That is an AM3 motherboard, so
you should not have any trouble accessing more memory. For comparison,
my AM2 system from ~2008 can access almost all, about 3.9GB (a bit is
still used for onboard video, etc.). I would be very surprised that
this isn't possible on a new AMD system.

-- 
Chris Irwin
<chris at chrisirwin.ca>