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My system: 10.5.4 Zeph Darwin 9.4.0 cpu: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Motherboard: MSI K9N SLI Platinum Memory: 4 gig DDR2 Hard Drive: 3 SATA video card: ATI X1950 pro 256 DDR3 memory I was trying to process a video file that is 4 gigs and my…

Primary Author: @dred Published 2008-09-21
Collection: OSx86 Core & 10.X
Archival Footprint: 4,176 historical reads · 5 curated field notes (from 6 dispatches) · 2008-09-21 – 2008-09-23
Credited Voices (5): @shaj (2)@dred @JorgeCCastro @iero @Voyn1x

My system: 10.5.4 Zeph Darwin 9.4.0
cpu: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
Motherboard: MSI K9N SLI Platinum
Memory: 4 gig DDR2
Hard Drive: 3 SATA
video card: ATI X1950 pro 256 DDR3 memory

I was trying to process a video file that is 4 gigs and my system keeps crashing. It seems that when I push past the 2 gig file size I have a stability problem. Not down loading, just processing on my local system.

Thanks for any help

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5 technical responses curated from 6 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @JorgeCCastro 2008-09-21

the problem is the 4 gigs of ram

check your BIOS settings for "memory hole remapping" and disable it

worked for me. test it and let me know…

Field Note #2 @shaj 2008-09-22 ↳ Re: @JorgeCCastro

@JorgeCCastrothe problem is the 4 gigs of ram check your BIOS settings for "memory hole remapping" and disable it worked for me. test it and let me know…

Hi Jorge.

I seem to be having the same problem. I can't find 'Memory Hole Remapping' in my Bios settings. Is it possible it could be under an alternate name? At the moment I am having to limit the total memory to 3GB

Field Note #3 @iero 2008-09-23

Same thing for me. I had 16Gb RAM in my box with Linux and I keep 2Gb only with Leopard. No problem since then.

iero.

Field Note #4 @Voyn1x 2008-09-23

You can keep 4Gb in and boot with maxmem=3456

3.5Gb is better than 2 :

Field Note #5 @shaj 2008-09-23 ↳ Re: @Voyn1x

@Voyn1xYou can keep 4Gb in and boot with maxmem=3456 3.5Gb is better than 2 :

I have tried with 3.5Gb. Unfortunately that crashes the system too. Only 3Gb has been stable so far.

There must be some way I can use all 4Gb

Sources & Contributor Provenance (5 credited usernames · Thread #1359)

Username	Dossier Contribution	Dispatches	Active Window
@shaj	Contributor	2	2008-09-22 → 2008-09-23
@dred	Primary Author	1	2008-09-21
@JorgeCCastro	Contributor	1	2008-09-21
@iero	Contributor	1	2008-09-23
@Voyn1x	Contributor	1	2008-09-23

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