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Installed Ram on old 866Mhz Piii Dell

Asked by Roky Williamson

I have an old 866 P3 Dell, that was almost given away, but I installed 6.06 Dapper on it a while back, and decided to keep it, (kids getting more curious about games etc).

I am now on Fiesty 7.04, and am glad to report I've had no problems, except I'm not sure if the RAM modules are registering in the OS. I have two 512Mb PC133 sdram modules installed in the box but the system monitor tells me I have "376.9Mb of Ram and around 705.9Mb of used swap". Is this right? Or are the memory modules in the box corrupt?

Thanking you in advance for any advice you can give me

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Marc Fournier (mfournier) said : 		#1

You can type the following commands in a shell to obtain more information about what your system "knows" about himself:

This one is useful to see how many and which memory modules are reported to the OS by your BIOS:

sudo apt-get install dmidecode
sudo dmidecode | less
(the page-down to the "Memory Device" section)

Then this one will show you how much memory the system has and is using/free:
free

Of course, the total should match what dmidecode reported.

Hope this helps !
Marc

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Jesus Gamio (jgamio) said : 		#2

Thank you for your question.

The memory size was ok in Dapper ?

If you write in the terminal free -m
how much memory report ?

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Roky Williamson (rich-ludlowwilliams) said : 		#3

Hi,

The output from running free -m is below

Mem: 376 352 24 0 10 206
-/+ buffers/cache: 136 240
Swap: 705 33 672

Total being 376Mb. I have two 512 modules on the Motherboard. Am I to assume two of them are corrupt?

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Jesus Gamio (jgamio) said : 		#4

In Dapper
did you work with the 2 512 modules ?

Try the memory test in the livecd

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Best Roky Williamson (rich-ludlowwilliams) said : 		#5

Turns out I was mistaken, I checked the BIOS and it was reporting 256MB on 1 slot, and 128 on another.

Thought I'd specced 512MB many moons ago when I bought the PC, the 128MB came from a different PC, again I mistakenly thought it was a 512MB dimm.

Thanks Macuto and Marc for your assistance