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Date:      Thu, 08 Jan 1998 05:05:50 -0500
From:      The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More than 64 MB of RAM
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19980108050550.0098e100@cybercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <199801080809.SAA08768@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
References:  <690hfm$690$1@al.imforei.apana.org.au>

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<bold>YOU DA MAN, PETER!</bold>  I don't know where you got this bit of
information from, but it seemed to solve the problem nicely.  I owe you a
beer. :-)


K.S.



At 06:39 PM 1/8/98 +1030, Peter Childs wrote:

>In article <<690hfm$690$1@al.imforei.apana.org.au> you wrote:

>

>> I recently bought an ASUS P2L97 Pentium II motherboard and put 128 MB
of

>> RAM on it, but FreeBSD didn't like that.  (Neither did Linux, Windows
95

>> or NT.)  It worked smashingly when I removed 64 MB of that RAM.  Is
there

>> anything special that I need to do with this motherboard (e.g., BIOS

>> setting, ritual sacrifices) to get it to work with protected memory

>> access?

>

> I can't remember where I read this, but I think you have to use
certain

> combinations of slots (just with this motherboard).

>

> It could have been on ASUS's FAQ, or the ASUS site, or perhaps

> it was Tom's hardware page in a review of this board (there is one

> there) or hmm...

>

> Try slots one and three.

>

> If you get really stuck scream and I'll dig a little.

>

> Peter

>

>--

> Peter Childs - finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for PGP public
key

>

>     We are FreeBSD, resistance is related to current and voltage...

>

>

>



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