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Date:      Fri, 05 Nov 1999 21:24:16 -0500
From:      Tom Embt <tom@embt.com>
To:        Calvin Meloon <calvin@mail.flyingcroc.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ASUS P2B-F & memory
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19991105212416.00dbe8f8@mail.embt.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911051236010.81737-100000@gilliam.users.fly ingcroc.net>

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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



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