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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">But I should still see 4GB without any patch. Right?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Windows only see 1.92GB as “Installed Memory (RAM)” in Control Panel->System.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am happy for the system to see up to 4GB only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Zoran Stojsavljevic [mailto:zoran.stojsavljevic@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 7 June 2016 1:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Naveed Ghori<br>
<b>Cc:</b> coreboot<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [coreboot] Windows only seeing 2GB of 4G (Seabios<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For you to read: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Important: <i><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">With PAE, </span></u></i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32" title="IA-32"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0B0080">IA-32</span></i></a><i><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525"> architecture
is augmented with additional address lines used to select the additional memory, so physical address size increases from 32 bits to 36 bits. </span></u></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then, after reading, this can/will help you: <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https://wj32.org/wp/2011/02/23/pae-patch-updated-for-windows-7-sp1/&c=E,1,4TzuPPEqEt09bfSHLiacrY50KGLRosTpaWTwnQSnoSKs3XZAVCm1oYCwQgdB0tNnt34H5_afYQx62tS0zDeEB4hnXiXrwGbJe3QaP4bkeTL8zwo,&typo=1" target="_blank">
https://wj32.org/wp/2011/02/23/pae-patch-updated-for-windows-7-sp1/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Naveed Ghori <<a href="mailto:naveed.ghori@dti.com.au" target="_blank">naveed.ghori@dti.com.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I am booting a 32 bit Win 7 image (via Seabios).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Windows is detecting only 1.92GB (even though there is 8GB of memory available.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Being a 32 bit OS I would have expected it to see at least 4GB.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Coreboot logs shows:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Available memory below 4GB: 0x7ae00000 (1966M)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Available memory above 4GB: 6144M<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">What can cause the full 4GB to not be seen. Should I install only 4GB of memory instead of 4GB? I have ordered some to try in any case.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Naveed<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#595959">Naveed Ghori</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#595959"> | Lead Firmware & Driver Engineer
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