Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:51:53 -0500 From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE (built 10/25) -> 4.5-STABLE (built and rebuilt during last week) Message-ID: <20020228225152.H40253@yip.org> In-Reply-To: <200203010017.g210HxC01073@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>; from rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 06:17:59PM -0600 References: <20020228190248.G40253@yip.org> <200203010017.g210HxC01073@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 06:17:59PM -0600, 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 ;-). You could give it a shot (hint: 3T is faster than 5T, for example), but... > 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 ;-). Pulling the extra memory and leaving it run for a couple of days is probably your best bet, just to eliminate the possibility that the software is the problem. One thing I'm wondering about, though: From the docs that I can find, the P2B only has 3 DIMM slots; the P2B-F has 4. After browsing alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus for a bit, you may find this thread informative: http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=c7a38985d8a4d497&seekm=377ec074%40news5.newsfeeds.com#link1 It expands on what Kent Stewart mentioned earlier. If I'm understanding that discussion right, if your DIMMs have 32 chips on them instead of 16, you'll need to ensure that they are 'registered' DIMMs as opposed to 'unbuffered' if you want to run with 4 of them. Hope this helps. -- Bob <melange@yip.org> | It's pretty good, if you don't think about it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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