New RAM not being picked up

[tve784]

I just upgraded my ram in the box im running PROXMOX 1.9 on to 8 Gig. Post and BIOS show the 8 Gig but once everything boots up I login and do "free -m" it is only showing 5.966 Gig. Any thoughts and thanks in advanced.

 

[dietmar]

Please can you post the full output of 'free -m'?

 

[tom]

any integrated graphic card consuming memory? you run a desktop mainboard?

 

[tve784]

"Please can you post the full output of 'free -m'?"

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 5966 1910 4055 0 31 57
-/+ buffers/cache: 1821 4145
Swap: 4095 0 4095


"any integrated graphic card consuming memory? you run a desktop mainboard?"

no onboard video and yes its just a desktop mobo that can handle up to 16 gig of ram

The bios picks up all 8gigs of ram...just once PROXMOX boots up it just recognizes 5.966


****Edit*** Also the mobo is

GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4​

 

[tom]

Boot from a Debian Live CD, do you see all memory?

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/
e.g. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/r...o-hybrid/debian-live-6.0.3-amd64-standard.iso

 

[tve784]

So booted from the live CD and it shows 5.988 for the total.

Thanks for the help

 

[tve784]

Its something with Debian I am thinking. I booted off a Fedora live cd and it finds all the 8gig of ram.