From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 21:47:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9555516A4F0 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:47:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271A343D1D for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:47:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE65C62899 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:47:53 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: fwbp6C9HcAvRK72CqA/ULA 1111009671 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-70-61.access.as9105.com [80.41.70.61]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5404975E for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:47:51 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:47:52 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <4237A3A3.3040704@bigfoot.com> In-Reply-To: <4237A3A3.3040704@bigfoot.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503162147.52931.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:47:55 -0000 On Wednesday 16 March 2005 03:10, Jean Lagarde wrote: > I have been troubleshooting reboots over the last weekend, I think I > might have enough clues now to get some useful hints from an expert. > > FreeBSD 5.3-release (see dmesg below for details) > > The problem seems to be with trying to run with 1.5GB vice 512MB of RAM. > The system has not had problems so far when I only leave the 512MB stick > in. When I add the 1GB stick the system will reboot at specific times, > for example, while trying to launch KDE3 or trying to make OpenOffice > (always reboots at "Extracting for openoffice-1.1.2-1"). I do not see > any panic in the messages log, the system just silently reboots. Have you checked your motherboard's manual for allowed memory combinations? I was thinking of making the same upgrade, but I looked through the table of supported configurations and I noticed that for DDR 400 memory, I should only have 1 double-sided stick. As I understand it, most DDR400 memory at 0.5 and 1GB is currently double-sided.