From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 26 19:50:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA10823 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:50:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA10806 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:50:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA15574; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:49:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd015568; Mon Oct 27 03:48:51 1997 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:47:13 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Dean cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new RAM question In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.16.19971026194225.14e70ccc@mail.thegrid.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk try backing down to 16 maybe your board only caches 16MB? (if it's old?) remember a single cache miss is bad.. I've had this on a 486 motherboard.. the manufacturer had a PAL upgrade for the cache controller. On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Dean wrote: > BSDibes, > I've got a 486 DX-33 with a 486 (I think) motherboard. Friday, I went > from 8 Megs to 20 Megs of RAM - from eight 1 Meg sims to four 4 Meg and > four 1 Meg sims. I've got eight 30 pin slots. Well, the problem is that > my system now crawls - like it is only recognizine the four 1 Meg sims. I > just installed FreeBSD, so I assume I've got the latest version. I didn't > think that there was anything I had to do in addition to ploping in the > sims. Any ideas? Thanks, > Dean >