OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 23:07:32 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> As for not being able to access all 4GB, this is a FAQ.
> If you run a 32-bit system, the top gigabyte or so of address space is
> reserved for memory mapped I/O reservations like AGP, PCIe, etc.
>
> If your hardware is capable of running in 64-bit mode, do that.
>

If the issue is present at POST, then it's not related to the FAQ you are
referring too.  In that case, the only fix I'm aware of it to update the
BIOS which isn't always possible.

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Adam Vande More


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