[techtalk] memory config?? HELP!!

[Davida Schiff]

What does your BIOS show for RAM? How is the CPU recognized? If the BIOS has
the correct information , boot with your Emergency disk then use your rescue
disk to repair your system.

Davida

-----Original Message-----
From: stephanie1200 at netscape.net [mailto:stephanie1200 at netscape.net]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 12:29 PM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: [techtalk] memory config?? HELP!!


hi, all. stephanie here, formerly beleza at bci-bluestone.com. Heh. what a long
strange trip it's been. ;) 

anyway, I need help! I wanted to research this before asking, but my system
is at a crawl.  I put linux mandrake 7.1 on a 400mhz with 64 or 128 mbs of
ram, i forget which (it has 1 dimm/simm/dim sum/whatever), but linux thinks
it is a 166 with 27 mbs!  it showed up that way during the install, not sure
why, and now it is swapping and paging all over the place and is making my
life miserable. anyone know how to make it rethink how much ram and
processor paower there is?  i looked in some books...no good. =(  oh. I had
7.0 on there and humming at one point so i know it's not just bunk hardware.
I think.

here's what dmesg has to say about memory...

[beleza at ani lists]$ dmesg |grep mem   
Memory: 25868k/28608k available (1208k kernel code, 416k reserved, 580k
data, 72k init, 0k bigmem)

25 mbs??!!??  eh, help??!!??  thank you!!!

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