From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 23:17:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B70E16A4CF; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:17:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA2D43D41; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:17:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 62C028564C; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:47:53 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:47:53 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Steve Kargl Message-ID: <20050330231753.GA84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050330222439.GU84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050330223546.GA4705@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050330224445.GW84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050330225715.GA4816@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QxSStYAgvEtE+iQJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050330225715.GA4816@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> 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 Users cc: FreeBSD-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:17:56 -0000 --QxSStYAgvEtE+iQJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:57:15 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:14:45AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> None of these problems occur when I use 4 GB memory. About the only >>>> strangeness, which seems to come from the BIOS, is that it recognizes >>>> only 3.5 GB. If I put all DIMMS in, it recognizes the full 8 GB >>>> memory. >>>> >>>> I realize that this isn't enough to diagnose the problem. The reason >>>> for this message now is to ask: >>>> >>>> 3. Where should I look next? >>> >>> Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? >> >> Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. > > That's what happens when 1 of 8 (1 of 4?) DIMM is bad :-) I've booted with the other 2 DIMMs now (I have 4 2 GB DIMMs, all the MB will hold). No problems. See my last reply to Scott: I'm wondering if the system is ignoring the PCI hole. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --QxSStYAgvEtE+iQJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCSzOhIubykFB6QiMRAlTsAKCuYHL3smT4m6l1gjoxxJ0YDJLZFgCcCRFd QrXTuMRenj//tyfBI6ivGKU= =WpQ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QxSStYAgvEtE+iQJ--