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Old 07-16-2014, 02:27 AM   #16
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Well, I installed two memory boards of 2 GB each, and left two of the old 1GB ones there, for a total of 6 GB. The BIOS sees it. I installed mint17, 64bit (Mata, and Quiana), and it looks beautiful, but I don't know how to tell if it is recognizing all of the memory. And now I have another problem (or maybe it's related). Sometimes (and it seems to be when I am changing from one program to another), the screen suddenly goes into a pattern That looks like a pattern of repeated words in an unknown font and language. I'm guessing that nVidea graphics on this older machine isn't handling well some setting in mint17.

Any ideas or suggestions?
 
Old 07-16-2014, 02:35 AM   #17
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Open a terminal window and run:
Code:
free -m
-m stands for list memory in mega bytes.
 
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