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minus-squareDpek@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoIt had reminded me of my old laptop which wouldnt boot if it had more then 4 gb of ram It may have been 32 bit (dont remember the exact model and no longer have it) or it may have been due to mismatched sticks
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days ago4GB is the 32-bit address space. You could be right. My thought was that there wasn’t really a technical reason to not boot with more RAM than is addressable, but it’s certainly possible that BIOS/firmware or even the OS treated it as a fatal error.
It had reminded me of my old laptop which wouldnt boot if it had more then 4 gb of ram
It may have been 32 bit (dont remember the exact model and no longer have it) or it may have been due to mismatched sticks
4GB is the 32-bit address space. You could be right. My thought was that there wasn’t really a technical reason to not boot with more RAM than is addressable, but it’s certainly possible that BIOS/firmware or even the OS treated it as a fatal error.