From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 11 20:12:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [206.161.83.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73C714CC0 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd.list@bug.tasam.com) Received: from bug (216-164-241-26.s26.tnt10.lnh.md.dialup.rcn.com [216.164.241.26]) by tasam.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA04398; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:12:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <006e01bee470$7e964540$0286860a@tasam.com> From: "Joe Gleason" To: "Bob Bishop" , "David Kelly" Cc: , References: <199908120035.TAA54114@nospam.hiwaay.net> Subject: Re: On freezes in 3.2-Stable Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:11:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Bob Bishop writes: > > >1. Supermicro can't handle a full 1GB, despite their specs > > >OR > > >2. FreeBSD can't handle that much memory in a stable manner > > > > OR > > 3. Something is marginal on the motherboard, and it won't drive 4 RAM > > modules (assuming that was 4 x 256 you were running). > > At Gateway or Dell customize-your-system sites I've seen notes stating > one can't fill the 3rd or 4th memory slot if one has more than 2 or 3 > internal HD's. I wonder if its a power supply issue? > More likely an internal space issue. On many systems I have seen, the 3.5 hard drive rack hits the ram or processor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message