Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:27:05 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> Cc: melange@yip.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE (built 10/25) -> 4.5-STABLE (built and rebuilt during last week) Message-ID: <3C7ECAD9.4020102@owt.com> References: <200203010017.g210HxC01073@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
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Loren James Rittle wrote: >>If you're going from having 1 dimm to 2, check your BIOS to see if >>there's a setting called something like "Speculative Read", and if it's >>turned on, turn it off. You may also want to try tweaking other options >>in there to more conservative settings (but only test things one at a >>time). >> > > For the record, I went from 3 128MB dimms to 4 of them. Should I manually > override SPD settings? I agree the type of crash makes me think it is > a hardware problem (like an idiot I upgraded two things close in time ;-). > > I will see if any other input come in while at dinner and then take action. > I'm leaning towards pulling the extra memory (as I want to refuse to > believe that STABLE has failed me ;-). There were some Tyan boards that permitted 4 dimms and 3 was all that was allowed by the spec. You may be seeing that problem. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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