Re: sbs standard limits total amount of RAM

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Any help here Omar?

BIOS displays a smaller memory size with 4GB or more of memory installed -
Servers
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=psg1MIGR-4E4RRF&loc=en_US

Troubleshooting memory not seen by the operating system issues - Servers and
IntelliStation
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=psg1MIGR-40247&loc=en_US

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Merv Porter [SBS MVP]
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"omar" <omar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> this is a question i posted earlier, hopefully now w/more data...
>
> hello all. i installed two 2GB memory sticks to my IBM Xseries server..
> (knowing that sbs standard max is 4GB of RAM). The bios picks up correct
> amount of memory.. however, when i go to system properties under windows,
> it
> claims it only has 3.25GB of RAM..
> why would this happen?? appreciate any feedback. thanks
>
> some server specs: integrated video. its sata hdd (80GB)... the server is
> an IBM Xseries 226. It has a Xeon 3 GHz. The NOS is SBS 2003 Standard
> Edition. i hope this is enough.. Before the memory upgrade, it did read
> the
> correct amount of memory (1GB... 1023MB as stated on its system
> properties).
> thanks for your help and sorry for any inconvenience.


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