Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 13:42:16 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: mathezer@newera.ab.ca, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help. Adding memory broke my machine Message-ID: <199603230312.NAA21389@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960322163537.281C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Mar 22, 96 04:36:38 pm
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Doug White stands accused of saying: > > simm. The instructions for the board say that I can not have all 6 > > memory slots filled but that 4 30 pin and 1 72 pin simm a supported > > configuration. Indeed, Windows 95 works fine with the added memory, > > however FreeBSD does not. > > I think I'd believe your motherboard manual. One or the other, but not both. I have a similar board; It's an Expert 4044, based on the OPTI 82C895. 4x30 and 1x72 is a supported configuration for some memory sizes, but 16+8 is not one of them. I suspect that if you were to use such a configuration, Windows would probably run fine, but FreeBSD would almost certainly crash. If you were to punish Windows very hard, it might also crash, or it might possibly have a better memory-sizing algorithm that can detect the sort of page-wrap problem that you'd be having. > > It actually performs much slower than with 16 M than with 24M or memory. > > Plus as soon as I try to do anything in X and I presume anything more > > intensive in general I get sig 10s and sig 11s all over the place. This is a Big Hint that there is something Very Wrong with your hardware. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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