Larry D <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I am trying yet another video card in the monster. I am having some success, but... Memory on BIOS startup reports "4096MB OK" - when Ubuntu comes up and I do a TOP, I see top - 22:00:41 up 6 min, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.12, 0.06 Tasks: 88 total, 1 running, 87 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 4.7% us, 1.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 92.1% id, 1.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 3512344k total, 343260k used, 3169084k free, 5612k buffers Swap: 2971984k total, 0k used, 2971984k free, 168944k cached Where is my memory going? http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-server@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg00048.html my guess is ubuntu server edition detects memory layout better on some boards. so a kernel from ubuntu server edition can see the other 512MB. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.