need my 32 bit to recognize more ram

[murderd2death]

so i just ran a freshly burnt 64 bit live cd of natty and i couldn't get passed the 'try installing ubuntu' menu. So until i figure that part out i'd like to get all of my ram recognized.

[thatguruguy]

i have tried USB sticks, those don't work well with 64 bit either.

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1900       1215        684          0         52        653
-/+ buffers/cache:        509       1390
Swap:         7627          0       7627

This still looks like a hardware issue to me. Check your bios for how much memory your computer is seeing.

As an aside, why do you have such a large swap file.

[murderd2death]

As an aside, why do you have such a large swap file.

i was planning to have 4 gigs of ram and have the swap doubled off of that.

[murderd2death]

This still looks like a hardware issue to me. Check your bios for how much memory your computer is seeing.

k, i checked the bios and it gave me relatively the same reading, so i got grounded and popped open my laptop and found out one of my RAM chips had loosened, thankfully at both ends so it didn't fry. I got it back in properly and am reading 4 gigs of ram. problem solved.

[thatguruguy]

Glad you got it sorted out.

I would hazard a guess that this may have been at the root of your problem w/r/t installing the 64-bit version of Ubuntu, as well.

Incidentally, although there may be some benefit in having your swap file be the same size as your ram (since ubuntu will use it when you put your computer in hibernation mode), you don't really need to have double the size of ram in your swap file. You're really just wasting disk space. But that is, of course, up to you.

[Kilz]

Before burning that cd, did you check the md5sum of the image you downloaded? I dont understand why you cant boot the 64bit edition, perhaps you need to file a bug report. Because your processor is 64bit according to Intel

Instruction Set 64-bit

You really do want to try the 64bit version, because right now your computer is not giving you the full benefit of the CPU you paid good money for.