4G Memory Only Recognised 3.4G

[James Takac]

On Tuesday 18 December 2007 10:26:54 Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently, I have installed 4 x 1GB memory sticks with Ubuntu 7.10, but my
> system only sees it as 3.4GB. Is this a typical phenomenon? Or, how can I
> fix this problem?
>
> Many thanks,
> Soo-Hyun



Hi Soo_Hyun

I think that's a left over from the old DOS days. Your missing memory would be 
the approx 640K base memory. The rest is extended memory. That's how I recall 
it. Someone will either correct me or expand on this

James