Gateways are notorious for only being picky about memory - this may be an issue of your ram being incompatible with your motherboard. I dunno, maybe the BIOS recognizes it but the rest of your system doesn't. Does Windows recognize your memory properly?
>
> From: Michael <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu>
> Date: 2002/03/01 Fri AM 12:28:46 EST
> To: members@mlug.missouri.edu
> CC: kplug-list@kernel-panic.org, nolug@nolug.org
> Subject: [Nolug] ram issues?
>
> I bought four 32M 72 pin EDO SIMM modules and when I try to install them,
> the system boots and the BIOS detects the memory. I tried booting into
> Linux both with and without the 'mem=128M' line and booting into Windows
> and all failed during the boot process. In Linux I started getting swap
> and filesystem errors. Now the system only recognized 16M of memory (my
> old memory) rather than the proper 48M.
>
> The online manual for my system said it takes this memory but it doesn't
> seem to work in any combination. The system is a Gateway P5-133XL. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute of it.
>
> ;):):-):):-):):-)8')
> Michael McGlothlin <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu>
> http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/
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