From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 19:06:48 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 0DFDC16A41F for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:06:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AF443D58 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:06:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i17so55108wra for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:06:45 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FzeBNTlKwLzCnUG8JabpjjEJ+I+aANLY9UNr2qPv8CJZusqil8uZriJ3D90alC9pvwc5IuTQN0A7Wuy+jItvKE/n07gLMO/x30AluX84zdwA/ogIgYps2935UjlNPDRrWB6CtX2RSoL2LLb+R8ey149XpEaeo7skk56CVvfQQPw= Received: by 10.54.151.9 with SMTP id y9mr4940962wrd; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.124.11 with HTTP; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:06:45 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20050823004058.B1093@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050823004058.B1093@ganymede.hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 19:06:48 -0000 On 8/22/05, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >=20 > Sorry for asking here, but y'all are the only "useful techies" I know :) >=20 > Am trying to put together my next new FreeBSD server ... Intel based, on > an SE7520JR2 DDR2 motherboard ... problem is simple ... >=20 > I have 4x1G Kingston DIMMs to put in (KVR400D2R3K2/2G) ... if I put two i= n > 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 ... >=20 > 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 ... >=20 That part number is not listed on the kingston page for the SE7520JR2 (DDR2) board: http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator/modelsinfo.asp?SysID=3D20251&m= fr=3DIntel&model=3DSE7520JR2+%28DDR2%29+Server&Sys=3D20251-Intel-SE7520JR2+= %28DDR2%29+Server&distributor=3D0&submit1=3DSearch Tested RAM and Genral RAM Guilde for the SE7520JR2: ftp://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/se7520jr2/sb/se7520jr2= _memlist_rev26.pdf Technical Product Specifications for the SE7520JR2: ftp://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/se7520jr2/sb/se7520jr2= tpsrev1.pdf 3 Beeps =3D "Base memory read / write test error" -Page 165 from the manual= above Also check the BIOS event log for POST error messages, Page 162