From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 21 20:47:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D6937B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8M3kei37768; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8M3j7M14038; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:45:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000a01c023e7$803469b0$200101c8@SOL> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Dale Chulhan - Work Subject: Re: Memory detection problems Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@ritc.co.uk, Cliff Rowley Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21-Sep-00 Dale Chulhan - Work wrote: >> I had exactly the same thing a few months back. I replaced my RAM and >> I've never seen it since. > its quite an interesting problem ... could any one give a techie explanation > to it? Your BIOS checks your memory during boot by reading and writing to all of it. As soon as it hits an error, it stops, and sets the available memory up to the point that you had the error. We ask the BIOS how much memory is in the machine, and voila. The original poster's memory is almost certainly bad and should be replaced ASAP. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message