From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 05:15:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 870FB16A41F for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:15:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FCA43D48 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:15:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 7142 invoked by uid 85); 23 Aug 2005 05:15:27 -0000 Received: from akbeech@gmail.com by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 2.022579 secs); 23 Aug 2005 05:15:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.200?) (alaska@vfemail.net@209.124.141.64) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with SMTP; 23 Aug 2005 05:15:25 -0000 From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:15:19 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050823004058.B1093@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20050823004058.B1093@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508222115.23706.akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: Re: Intel related question ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:15:33 -0000 On Monday 22 August 2005 07:43 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Sorry for asking here, but y'all are the only "useful techies" I know :) > > Am trying to put together my next new FreeBSD server ... Intel based, on > an SE7520JR2 DDR2 motherboard ... problem is simple ... > > I have 4x1G Kingston DIMMs to put in (KVR400D2R3K2/2G) ... if I put two in > Bank 1, I can boot ... if I put the other two in Bank 1, I can boot ... > if I put 4 in (2 in Bank1, 2 in Bank2), I get three long beeps ... > > Is ther something obvious I'm overlooking here? It doesn't seem like the > RAM, since all 4 sticks do work, so its only leaving me the motherboard > itself ... but wanted to double check ... > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) According to intel's website: "Six DIMM sockets for up to 24 GB of Registered ECC DDR 266 or 16 GB of Registered ECC DDR 333 or DDR2 400; memory must be populated in pairs." Is your memory registered? Beech --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------