Dell Latitude D620 with 4GB RAM
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| - | My Dell Latitude D620 at work had a 1024MB DDR2-667 PC2-5300 SO-DIMM. I purchased two 2048MB DDR2-677 PC2-5300 SO-DIMMs | + | My Dell Latitude D620 at work had a 1024MB DDR2-667 PC2-5300 SO-DIMM. I purchased two 2048MB DDR2-677 PC2-5300 SO-DIMMs to try to expand RAM to 4096MB. |
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| + | My operating system is Ubuntu hardy (development branch) running kernel 2.6.24-15-generic. | ||
With BIOS Revision A02 and 3072MB RAM installed, I was able to use ~ 3033.5MB. | With BIOS Revision A02 and 3072MB RAM installed, I was able to use ~ 3033.5MB. | ||
$ '''head -1 /proc/meminfo''' | $ '''head -1 /proc/meminfo''' | ||
MemTotal: 3106300 kB | MemTotal: 3106300 kB | ||
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Surprisingly, with BIOS Revision A02 and 4096MB RAM installed, I was only able to use ~ 3033.7MB! | Surprisingly, with BIOS Revision A02 and 4096MB RAM installed, I was only able to use ~ 3033.7MB! | ||
| - | + | $ '''head -1 /proc/meminfo''' | |
| - | MemTotal: | + | MemTotal: 3106464 kB |
After upgrading my BIOS to the BIOS Revision A09 (D620_A09.EXE) using the process [http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html here], I was still only able to use ~3287.5MB. | After upgrading my BIOS to the BIOS Revision A09 (D620_A09.EXE) using the process [http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html here], I was still only able to use ~3287.5MB. | ||
$ '''head -1 /proc/meminfo''' | $ '''head -1 /proc/meminfo''' | ||
MemTotal: 3366396 kB | MemTotal: 3366396 kB | ||
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| + | Note: Running kernel 2.6.24-15-generic did not significantly change the amount of available RAM. | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
* [http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html How to flash motherboard BIOS from Linux (no DOS/Windows, no floppy drive)?] | * [http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html How to flash motherboard BIOS from Linux (no DOS/Windows, no floppy drive)?] | ||
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My Dell Latitude D620 at work had a 1024MB DDR2-667 PC2-5300 SO-DIMM. I purchased two 2048MB DDR2-677 PC2-5300 SO-DIMMs to try to expand RAM to 4096MB.
My operating system is Ubuntu hardy (development branch) running kernel 2.6.24-15-generic.
With BIOS Revision A02 and 3072MB RAM installed, I was able to use ~ 3033.5MB.
$ head -1 /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3106300 kB
Surprisingly, with BIOS Revision A02 and 4096MB RAM installed, I was only able to use ~ 3033.7MB!
$ head -1 /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3106464 kB
After upgrading my BIOS to the BIOS Revision A09 (D620_A09.EXE) using the process here, I was still only able to use ~3287.5MB.
$ head -1 /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3366396 kB
Note: Running kernel 2.6.24-15-generic did not significantly change the amount of available RAM.
