From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 11 03:37:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E1BF16A4CE; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 03:37:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C4443D55; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 03:37:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 458378568C; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:07:46 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:07:46 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: David O'Brien Message-ID: <20050411033746.GF84649@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050408200418.GC3738@dragon.NUXI.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org cc: FreeBSD-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? (solved) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 03:37:50 -0000 --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCWfEKIubykFB6QiMRAmlIAJ9O/6gH3evN+9RYEKKZyeZoPHTNUQCfYje7 0H8d5Ua9O/gdoZDY1UVG/js= =PDit -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l--