From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 13 8:42:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E7A37B502 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D9909755D; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:47:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E8C1D89; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:47:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:47:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Jin Guojun Cc: thebs@smithconcepts.com, thebs@theseus.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K7V problem? <- Make sure DIMM is in slot 1 In-Reply-To: <200010131536.e9DFaAL13073@portnoy.lbl.gov> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jin Guojun wrote: :Bryan -TheBS- Smith 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. That's odd, since the board will take 3 512M PC133 DIMMs. I'm not aware of what exactly is meant by 'registered DIMMs', could someone explain. The machine runs NT Server 4.0 and Win98 just fine, and I realize FBSD tends to use hardware more aggressively. If the memory were incompatible, I would think nothing would run. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message