From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 14:27:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (sockittome.aldigital.co.uk [194.128.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD14B37B405 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:27:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from algroup.co.uk (wiese.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.150]) by scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7179113608; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:27:28 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3C17D9CF.A356BB1D@algroup.co.uk> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:27:27 +0000 From: Ben Laurie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Willcox Cc: dochawk@psu.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 GB? References: <20011212092409.C58771@luke.immure.com> <200112122158.fBCLwTZ08996@fac13.ds.psu.edu> <20011212161021.A96739@luke.immure.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Willcox wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:58:29PM -0500, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > > 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? > > I think they do now, but Tyan used to claim that it supported 8 banks. > Indeed, they list a "typical" configuration in their user's manual as > having 4 256MB DIMMs, i.e., 8 banks. It seems that they revised their > spec to only 6 banks when they discovered 8 banks were a problem. :-) Funnily enough this is a Tyan board :-) Anyone want to recommend one that is known to work? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message