From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 13 8:52:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E273437B502 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4BD3E7567; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4900A1D8E; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:57:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Richard Tobin Cc: Jin Guojun , thebs@smithconcepts.com, thebs@theseus.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K7V problem? <- Make sure DIMM is in slot 1 In-Reply-To: <200010131544.QAA27626@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Richard Tobin wrote: :> I'm not aware :> of what exactly is meant by 'registered DIMMs', could someone explain. : :I think it means "having registers" :-) : :According to http://www.memoryx.net/128rpc133ecc.html: : : Registered means the module has a type of buffering. This allows more : modules to run stably in a system. To use registered dimm, your : mainboard must support registration and you can not mix registered : and non registered memory. I have no idea if the DIMM is registered or not. The memory supplier you point to above sells both reg'd and unreg'd 256M DIMMs, so size is not an indicator. Looking at the price difference, I doubt I have a reg'd DIMM. I'd also think if I did, nothing would work, not just FreeBSD. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message