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Saturday 26th July 2008

2816MB
I feel I ought to uselessly vent my frustration somewhere . . . why not here? I have a motherboard (an ASRock 939Dual-VSTA) that claims to support 4GB of memory, under certain circumstances (that are far too dull to go into here, but suffice to say these circumstances have been met). So I put 4GB of RAM into the thing and, lo-and-behold, it can only 'see' 2816MB. BIOS is aware of the 4GB but, when I leave BIOS, I quickly see the figure 2816 flashed up, long before any kind of boot sequence begins (and, therefore, operating system independent). Is the motherboard faulty (well, the first ASRock 939Dual-VSTA they supplied had to be returned as it was definitely faulty, but this was, like, nearly two years ago)? Do I need a BIOS upgrade? Erm . . . do I care? Does anyone care? Is it worth the hassle? Blah, blah, blah. And, far more importantly, why did my honeycomb mixture not set in the fridge? Did I not boil it long enough? Do I need a sugar thermometer? I left the stuff in the freezer to teach it a lesson. Grrrrr.
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