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Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60

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Somewhere on teh intarwebs the wharf rat wrote:
> 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.

There is no way, no how that you can use more than 3GB RAM with a T60 
regardless of what you may or may not turn off, regardless of what OS you're 
using. If you can prove otherwise there are a whole bunch of very educated 
folks over at http://forum.thinkpads.com/ , most of them in the IT biz who 
would love to hear about it.

Until then STFU. You're wrong and attacking me personally only goes to show 
that you're better at that than you are at IT work.

> 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.

There is no way, no how that you can use more than 3GB RAM with a T60 
regardless of what you may or may not turn off, regardless of what OS you're 
using. If you can prove otherwise there are a whole bunch of very educated 
folks over at http://forum.thinkpads.com/ , most of them in the IT biz who 
would love to hear about it.

Until then STFU. You're wrong and attacking me personally only goes to show 
that you're better at that than you are at IT work.

>> 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

Red herring, has nothing to do with the subject matter. Obfuscation is your 
forte, real answers certainly aren't.

> Go hammer on that for a while, Spike.

Cute way to compensate. Shame you know FU about the subject at hand.
-- 
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a 
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) 

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Ibm Thinkpad T60 "Dark" <gd@rk.notspam> - 2012-02-08 09:03 +0100
  Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 George <george.ruch74@gmail.com> - 2012-02-08 17:23 -0700
    Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 "Dark" <gd@rk.notspam> - 2012-02-13 11:55 +0100
      Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 George <george.ruch74@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 09:26 -0700
        Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 "Dark" <gd@rk.notspam> - 2012-02-17 12:02 +0100
    Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2012-02-21 14:03 +1300
      Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-02-22 02:47 +0000
        Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2012-02-22 21:09 +1300
          Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2012-02-28 14:30 +1300
            Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-03-01 03:32 +0000
              Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2012-03-05 15:22 +1300
                Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-03-06 00:41 +0000
                Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60 "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2012-03-07 14:11 +1300
                Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60, complete with Grateful Dead reference wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-03-09 02:59 +0000

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