Aperture beyond 4gb. Ignoring.

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/2/27 Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>:
> Intrepid not too sure of the KDE version, 64bit .
>
> Here is what it says:
>
> Aperture beyond 4GB.  Ignoring.
> Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole.
> Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup.
> This costs you 64MB of ram.
>
> IOMMU does not exist in my computer.  Lots of talk about it but no solution
> yet.  I will continue to read, however if anyone has first hand information on
> this, I would appreciate movement to the front of the line.  Thanks!
>
> This is a new build.  I am using on-board sound and video and lan.  The
> Motherboard is an ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe Mempipe, Memory is Axiom 240 pin. DDR2
> ECC SDRAM 667mhz (tested perfect), Processor 9600 AMD Phenom Quad Core Black
> Edition  BFG 800W Power Supply  Both HDD and DVDRW are SATA
>
> If you know about this problem, I also have a PNY 9600 Gforce 512mb DDR3 Video
> Card that I am having trouble getting installed.
>
> I currently am in a shell pre-open.  I need help to continue.  I had over 300
> upgrades installed, and have configured most everything.  I was working on
> email configuration when the problem occurred. (Kmail) I am going back to
> Google to continue the search.  Thanks for any experience you can provide.
>
> Steven

I  have this to and have wondered what it meant. I don't think it is
anything you need to worry about.