Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60, complete with Grateful Dead reference

From	wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops
Subject	Re: Ibm Thinkpad T60, complete with Grateful Dead reference
Date	2012-03-09 02:59 +0000
Organization	Public Access Networks Corp.
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In article <jj6cjs$upo$1@dont-email.me>,
~misfit~ <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>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 

	Ok, let's try one more time.

	If you install 4GB in that obsolete Thinkpad of yours(1) about 700MB
is reserved for PCI device addressing.  Some more is reserved for ROM
shadowing and such.  It doesn't have to be that way but that's how Lenovo 
wrote the BIOS.  All that leaves 1GB for your Windows kernel and 2GB for your
other stuff.  

	Now, if you turn off shadowing, turn the shared video memory down(2), 
and disable as many devices as you can (especially PXE and WOL, and USB BIOS 
stuff) you'll find that you have closer to 3.5 GB but still can't make good 
use of it with MS 32bit desktop crap.  Try a 64 bit whatever.

	So, you CAN "use" more then 3GB.  You can use it for your kernel,
your pirated copy of Call to Duty, to shadow your BIOS, for PCI addressing,
or for a RAM disk.  Just like it says in the Intel spec sheet: 4GB and no more
on the 945.  Dell BIOS of this genre' gives you 3.5 without much monkeying
around, but Lenovo was...more conservative?

>most of them in the IT biz who would love to hear about it.

	You know folks in the IT biz?  I'm impressed.

					
				"I don't know, it must've been the roses
				 The roses, or the ramdisk in her four gee bee
				 I don't know, maybe it was the roses
				 All I know it's way way more than three"


(1) I'm typing this on a T23 running Centos.
(2) I seem to remember that most T60's had discrete
video so s/sharedvideo/shadowed video/ if you want...

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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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