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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:58:29 -0500
From:      dochawk@psu.edu
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
Cc:        Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2 GB? 
Message-ID:  <200112122158.fBCLwTZ08996@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:24:09 CST." <20011212092409.C58771@luke.immure.com> 

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bob bobbled,

> In my experience, this type of problem has always turned out to be
> hardware. The more memory DIMMs you install in a MB the more likely it
> is to happen. I was able to _finally_ get my two dual Athlon systems
> with Tyan S2460 MBs to work with 1GB (4 256MB DIMMs for a total of 8
> banks of memory), but only after replacing the MBs with newer revisions.
> Prior to doing that, I had one of them (with the older rev MB) run fine
> for 2 months before failing.

err, don't the specs say it can only handle a six bank load?

hawk

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