After many hours of scouring the internet trying to figure out why my linux box only recognizes only 64Mb of my 128Mb RAM, I found an article with the solution. It seems to be an issue with my mainboard (Gigabyte GA-71XE). In a post on linuxhardware.com, someone upgraded to a 2.3.99pre6 kernel and it solved the memory issue. I know enough about linux to know that 2.3.x is a beta kernel and I am willing to upgrade in order to utilize an extra 64Mb of RAM. I haven't found any good documentation on using a beta kernel. Any suggestions\cautions? btw, I've built kernels before, just not a beta one yet. I have tried many things to solve this problem: appending lines to the lilo.conf file, passing parameters to the kernel on install, and switching the DIMM chip into different slots to name a few. Thanks, Jon