Scott Silva wrote:
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes. BIOS Information Vendor: Intel Corp. Version: EV91510A.86A.0482.2006.0222.2350
Many desktop boards are designed for Windows, and linux isn't quite up to speed on them. You usually need to run Cutting edge distros like Fedora on desktop boards to get the most out of them.
find my previous message on this.
he's got a board/chipset that doesn't remap the 'missing' 800MB... even in 64-bit mode (assuming he had a EM64T P4 in there, I'm not sure that board supports them) he'd only see ~ 3.1GB ram.