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From: wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 00:41:33 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <jj180i$51i$1@dont-email.me>,
~misfit~ <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>Wow! How do I tell my T60 running 64-bit 7 Ultimate that it's wrong not 
>showing me all of the RAM?
>

	Write it a polite letter explaining that the dumb bios doesn't support
memory remapping so a bunch of the available 4GB is taken up by device 
addressing.  Make sure you point out that this is not a limitation of the
chipset, as some people on Usenet claim, but just a braindead bios.  Then dump
your old T60 for a T61.

>"512 MB or 1 GB PC2-5300 memory standard upgradable to 4 GB - Due to an 
>addressing limitation in the Intel 945PM and 945GM chipsets, only 3GB will 
>be available for use."

'	They're wrong.  In fact, turning off the net boot ram and usb support
options will get you to about 3.25 just by itself.

>
>Lenovo's BIOS base code (non-upgradable) doesn't allow any more than 3GB to 

	Voila'    So if you knew it was bad BIOS then why did you argue about
chipset bugs?   Sheesh.

	BTW, you can edit bios registers and coax another 512MB or so out of
even a T60.  Nothing to do with the chipset at all.

>Eh? It's nothing to do with "MS". <shakes head> I guess when you only have a 
>hammer everything looks like a nail?

	Specially that point on the top of your little head.  Looks just
like a 8d Common!

	BTW, Windows has some interesting memory limitations built in:

	http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us

	Go hammer on that for a while, Spike.