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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