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Date:      Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:07:46 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? (solved)
Message-ID:  <20050411033746.GF84649@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050408200418.GC3738@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <200503301525.37798.peter@wemm.org> <20050331184524.GB1687@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050330222439.GU84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050330223546.GA4705@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050330224445.GW84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200503311032.33718.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050331015429.GH6252@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050331185902.GF1687@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050405003911.GT867@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050408200418.GC3738@dragon.NUXI.org>

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On Friday,  8 April 2005 at 13:04:18 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:09:11AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> The moral of the story is, I suppose, "don't buy the MSI K8T
>> Master2-FAR".  I was warned about the motherboard before I bought it,
>
> WHY??  There is nothing wrong with that motherboard -- I have three of
> them.  You are at fault for trying to treat a consumer desktop 2P mobo as
> a high-end server one.

"You are at fault for trying to used a mobo in an advertised
configuration".

Sorry, David.  If a board doesn't perform as advertised, it's
inferior.  If you can find a way to work around, fine.  I can too, and
I have done.  But the ability to find a workaround for a deficiency is
no reason to say "There is nothing wrong with that motherboard".

> People do not run 2GB DIMM's in an MSI K8T Master2-FAR.

Indeed.  You can't.

> The MSI K8T Master2-FAR works fine with 1GB DIMM's.  Where on MSI's
> website did they state 2GB double-stacked DIMM's were supported?

I can't be bothered to search their web site.  It's on page 2-8 of the
instructions supplied with the motherboard (document G52-S9130X3,
version 1.2).

Greg
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