[ubuntu-us-ut] why is my 4G of ram only showing as 2G with 32bit PAE? (was: 64-bit vs 32-bit)

[Christian Horne]

memtest comes up fine and it all shows up in the bios.

On 4/8/10, Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/8/2010 12:30 PM, Christian Horne wrote:
>> well ... yeah, the subject says it all.
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>> why is my 4G of ram only showing as 2G with 32bit PAE?
>
> Likely because you have bad RAM. I take it you have 2 2GB sticks? Is one
> of the sticks dead? Have you done a memtest on your RAM?
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