August 21, 2006
Curses! Defoiled Again!
I got a call from the computer store* today. Turns out that the motherboard I'd ordered would only support 3GB of memory, not the 8GB it said on the web site. So I was forced to get the better model with the dual network ports, dual PCIe x16 slots, FireWire, WiFi, eSATA, and all that.
Darn.
* EYO; I've been buying stuff from them for years.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:50 PM | Comments (22) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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"Forced", huh? At gunpoint, obviously. What a terrible fate, to have to buy better toys than you expected.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at August 22, 2006 04:15 AM (+rSRq)
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Worse than that - the company is paying for it. Oh, woe!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 22, 2006 09:50 AM (PiXy!)
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Err, just noticed that the number of comments on this post and the previous is off by one.
Posted by: Chris C. at August 23, 2006 12:35 AM (2tRs7)
Posted by: Kristopher at August 23, 2006 04:30 AM (O5Ju8)
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The comment counter gets confused when I zap spam. In the final version, it will be maintained by a database trigger, but right now it has to be reset every so often.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 23, 2006 11:52 AM (PiXy!)
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We're running into this problem as well.
Here's what we've just learned at work: Dell will happily sell you a laptop stuffed with 4GB of memory, but the machine is only capable of recognizing 3GB.
We're in the process of sorting this out with them, because we need to buy a *bunch* of 4GB laptops for our engineering staff.
Grrrrr.
Here's what we've just learned at work: Dell will happily sell you a laptop stuffed with 4GB of memory, but the machine is only capable of recognizing 3GB.
We're in the process of sorting this out with them, because we need to buy a *bunch* of 4GB laptops for our engineering staff.
Grrrrr.
Posted by: Barry Campbell at August 26, 2006 08:14 PM (xq6n5)
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Wow. Considering what Dell charges for a notebook with 4GB of memory, you'd think they would have actually tested one at some point.
I checked the technical specs for the chipsets, and it looks like it's a BIOS problem. The hardware really does support 8GB (and potentially more), but the lower 4GB of the address space is fragmented. So if the BIOS maps the physical memory there, you only get 3GB, or in fact slightly less than that.
I checked the technical specs for the chipsets, and it looks like it's a BIOS problem. The hardware really does support 8GB (and potentially more), but the lower 4GB of the address space is fragmented. So if the BIOS maps the physical memory there, you only get 3GB, or in fact slightly less than that.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 26, 2006 08:28 PM (PiXy!)
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