From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Nov 5 18:25:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9048214D85 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:25:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from PARANOR (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA26309; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 20:29:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991105212416.00dbe8f8@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 21:24:16 -0500 To: Calvin Meloon From: Tom Embt Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-F & memory Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:39 11/05/1999 -0800, Calvin Meloon wrote: >Has anyone had trouble upgrading RAM on the ASUS P2B-F motherboard. Spec >sheets on their site says it's capable of supporting a gig of RAM, but >when I do so, the kernel can't boot up. It starts and reboots over and >over. > >It has four slots and I'm using 256 meg chips. Dropping back to 768m >works, but I'd really like to use the full gig capacity. > >Any ideas? > >Thanks > Check your docs, alot of boards require the use of registered DIMMS when populating all their memory slots with the maximum amount of RAM. This is not a design flaw of the board, but rather an electrical fact of life with modern memory and bus speeds. Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message