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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:36:05 -0400
From:      Bryan -TheBS- Smith <thebs@theseus.com>
To:        Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: K7V problem? <- Make sure DIMM is in slot 1
Message-ID:  <0010131041030T.12156@spanky.theseus.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010130716130.97143-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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Re: K7V problem? <- Make sure DIMM is in slot 1

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> The machine in question is an Athlon/850 on an Asus K7V (BIOS 1007) with a
> 256M PC-133 DIMM.  
>     ...
> When attempting to boot from the CD, the machine locks immediately after
> the adaptec card reports "SCSI BIOS installed successfully".  Hard locks.
> requires hard reset.  This is the same for a Win98 CD.  Something in the
> way FBSD and Win98 load themselves into memory is obviously unhappy.
>     ...

9 times out of 10, the problem I have with registered DIMMs
(256MB+) as well as PC133 is the failure to put the DIMMs in slot
order.  That means first DIMM in slot 1, second in slot 2, etc... 
Every mainboard manual says this and you could get away with it in
the pasta, but on these faster/registered DIMM modules, its now a
requirement most of the time.

BTW, DIMM 1 is NOT always the DIMM closest to the CPU.  In
fact, my Abit BP6 and KT7 mainboards have DIMM 1 farthest from the
CPU.  Many other boards are similar.

I have been trying to get the word out to major resellers about
this.  I have had at least a half dozen tech support departments
thank me about this over the last month or so.

-- TheBS

P.S.  Another thing:  Be more conservative with your settings in
your BIOS/CMOS.  Start extremely conservative, then tweak.  I'll
take several weeks to get them exact (meaning run for hours with
each).

--
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