From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 13:59:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B96C37B41C for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:59:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBCLwTZ08996; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:58:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200112122158.fBCLwTZ08996@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Bob Willcox Cc: Ben Laurie , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 GB? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:24:09 CST." <20011212092409.C58771@luke.immure.com> From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:58:29 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message