From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 23 09:28:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09145 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:28:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles354.castles.com [208.214.167.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09110; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19129; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:26:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811231726.JAA19129@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Rob cc: Sam Pigg , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tyan S1836DLUAN >512Mb problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Nov 1998 07:45:56 MST." <36597523.1B3B1114@cc.weber.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:26:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > Trying to use 1 gig of memory on a tyan S1836DLUAN (dual 450 PII's) > > running 3.0-RELEASE, keep having problems with the system freezing up, > > rebooting, compiles failing due to signal 11's etc. If I decrease the > > memory to 512 megs (I'm using those weird micron 256meg simms btw) > > everything works fine. Tyan claims this motherboard can support up to > > '1GB SPD SDRAM or SDRAM+ECC in addition to the new 100MHz > > SDRAMs' > > > > This motherboard uses the 440GX chipset, but another system with > > a tyan S1832DL (440BX chipset) suffers from the same symptoms when > > >512 megs of ram are installed. > > The problem is not with the motherboard. Most of the mother boards that > support SMP PII's have the same problem. Just a quick point; if you're using an SMP board with only one CPU, make sure that you've got the terminator card in the empty slot... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message