I recently got a problem with the efika's ram.
Usually once morphos boot, about 92 MB of ram remain.
Now after boot, I got 76 MB only.
Any idea?

most likely a program you installed, changes to startup which starts a program and/or changes to a monitor resolution which feeds into the memory more. Just my guess, as I'm not an expert. [did you do an early boot? boot boot.img bootmenu then select 1084x768@60 then boot startup or no startup-sequence upon cli screen loadwb] see if mem improves slightly. This may give you an answer.]

Now are you talking after the quark boot which leads into morphos 2.3 screen, or ambient screen with ram and drives icon? I've never got anything remotely close to 90. I use to get 76 left before 2.3 came out and I changed display, now I get 65 megs upon boot

Yeah, forget it, my fault, I was divouring ram with unuseless things, now it's up to 80 MB again.

Since this topic was already used before, I will just steal this thread instead of starting my own new one.

I recently installed 2.4 on my Efika system and was pleased to see that it appeared to give me a few more mb of RAM after booting than 2.3 did, but now that I think of it, it could just be that some program, or driver that was installed with my 2.3 install was not turned on with the updated 2.4 install.

Anyway, that is not what I want to write about. I am having a problem with my Efika that used to have 96mb RAM after boot, now it shows between 40mb to 52mb after booting and I am hoping that it is not a hardware failure. Is there a way I can check for this from inside running MorphOS?

After noticing the RAM problem, I started having trouble starting the Efika, so I removed the Pico PSU and connected a small ATX PSU, but this did not solve the missing RAM. I then took my Efika completely apart to check for visible damage, but could see none. At no time did I see the magic smoke escape from my Efika, so I dont know if I have a hardware problem or if it is a software problem from trying to install something shortly after I did the 2.4 upgrade?

Any suggestions?

Edit: I also did a complete clean install of 2.4 again to see if there was any problems with the first update and it made no difference. (typing from Amikit v1.5.9 on my PC using IBrowse)

[ Edited by amigadave on 2009/10/30 22:07 ]

Check your ram:

Open a shell, type avail - shows all the ram. Then run memtest to check if everything is okay. What does Quark say when booting the machine - on the boot screen the RAM available to the ABox gets displayed.

If by Quark you mean the boot pic of the Blue Butterfly, that screen says 101mb RAM, but as soon as the Amibient desktop is finished rendering I only have about 45mb left.

It is almost 4am and I am in bed on my laptop watching movies on the TV, so I will not check the Efika until after I sleep for a few hours. This time of day is better for me to be on MorphZone as there are more users online due to the time difference and more users being from UK, EU, etc.