Subj : Re: Memory usage
To   : comp.os.linux
From : New Omega
Date : Thu Jul 15 2004 10:47 pm


Bruce Coryell said:

> Not this MB - has a 16MB 3dfx card in it - anything else that eats up 8 
> MB of RAM?
> 
> Harry Phillips wrote:
>> Bruce Coryell wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm running RHEL 3 on a machine with 256 MB RAM (and correctly 
>>> reported as such by the POST on boot).  However when Linux boots up, I 
>>> get a message that 256 MB is the minimum supported configuration and 
>>> 248 MB is  found.  Where am I losing 8 MB of RAM?
>>>
>> 
>> Built-in video card.
>>

Have you tried upgrading your BIOS firmware? / What mobo?

 -newomega

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