On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 at 04:29PM -0500, dan wrote: > I recently bought a 512MB stick of PC2700 Crucial RAM. But I only seem > to have about 450-some MB of memory: when I run 'free' I get ...I also recently bought a motherboard with integrated video. "Sweet!" I thought. "Now I don't need to get a separate video card." I neglected to consider where the integrated video gets its memory from. :) In the BIOS, it's set to steal 64 megs of system memory, which basically explains my missing memory. I changed it to 32, and voila, I have 32 megs more system memory. Thanks for Jim for suggesting I look there... Dan -- Ceci n'est pas une .signature. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050721/578e0368/attachment.pgp