Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:36:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> To: ragnar@sysabend.org, thebs@smithconcepts.com, thebs@theseus.com Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K7V problem? <- Make sure DIMM is in slot 1 Message-ID: <200010131536.e9DFaAL13073@portnoy.lbl.gov>
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Bryan -TheBS- Smith <thebs@theseus.com> 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 >... Hmmm, the manual says: "registered DIMMs are not supported." (P20, P22). It looks like not a slot problem, but the memory type. -Jin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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