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ooev

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March 27th, 2006 19:00

Request memory remapping feature in future BIOS update for 400SC to support PAE

Currently 4GB memory is not possible.
"Up to 4GB" should be changed cause 4GB can never be reached.
We're talking about the latest A10 BIOS and still the feature is not there.
 
If this is a hardware design issue and BIOS is not going to help anyway, please amend your advertisement.
 

Mark_A_Smith

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April 3rd, 2006 19:00

I'm not sure what your question is.  You can install 4GB in this server and it will work.  Depending on the OS that you run you may or may not be able to access the full 4GB of memory - this is a limitation of the PCI architecture.

ooev

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April 7th, 2006 17:00

The BIOS can recognize 4GB mem. But it also reserves memory for AGP/PCI/xx resources and OS like linux/windows can not utilize the full 4GB memory.

This issue is solved by intel/microsft APE technology but it is not available in the latest Dell A10 BIOS.

If this is Dell's problem, please provide new BIOS with APE support.
If this is hardware design problem or architecture limitation, it'd be nice for you to amend your advertisement about the term "up to 4GB". Simply because 4GB can never be reached by OS. Otherwise this is just a trick game and I would suggest you put "up to 128GB" there, which looks more fascinating, despite the fact that you admit this 4GB issue in user manual.

thanks.

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