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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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