[sllug-members]: install linux lose ram

[Don Flemming]

Hi
  I'm new to Salt Lake city and I thought maybe you could help me with a problem. I first installed suse 6.2 back in 1999. I had put together computer with a K6-166 a few months earlier and had just upgraded the ram to 64mb ( 2x32md dimms). After about three days I noticed my RAM was reading about 16mb low. I tried touboleshooting it but could not find the problem. I even did a low level format and reinstalled the s/w. It didn't work. I did another low level format and reinstalled windows. nothing fixed it. I next bought a used laptop, an IBM thinkpad 380d. I tried installing suse 6.2 and it did the same thing . it ate 16mb of the ram. Last year I got a copy of mandrake Linux 10.0 nstalled it on a k6-366 computer I had put together from spare parts. It did the same thing. It ate my ram. When I tried installing it on the first computer, the k6-166 it ate a second 16mb of ram
  I have now tried two different iterations of linux on threeseperate and distinct hardware platforms and each time I lose 16mb of RAM. This shows up in the bios and further troubleshooting indicates that the change is in the DIMMs. If figure to s/w is setting something in the DIMM controller but I don't know what.
  Does anybody know what's going on here? Why does linux change my RAM and how do I fix it?
  Thanks, Don AKA dcflemming at yahoo.com

 
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