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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:27:05 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
Cc:        melange@yip.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.4-STABLE (built 10/25) -> 4.5-STABLE (built and rebuilt during last week)
Message-ID:  <3C7ECAD9.4020102@owt.com>
References:  <200203010017.g210HxC01073@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>

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Loren James Rittle wrote:

>>If you're going from having 1 dimm to 2, check your BIOS to see if
>>there's a setting called something like "Speculative Read", and if it's
>>turned on, turn it off.  You may also want to try tweaking other options
>>in there to more conservative settings (but only test things one at a
>>time).
>>
> 
> For the record, I went from 3 128MB dimms to 4 of them.  Should I manually
> override SPD settings?  I agree the type of crash makes me think it is
> a hardware problem (like an idiot I upgraded two things close in time ;-).
> 
> I will see if any other input come in while at dinner and then take action.
> I'm leaning towards pulling the extra memory (as I want to refuse to
> believe that STABLE has failed me ;-).


There were some Tyan boards that permitted 4 dimms and 3 was all that 
was allowed by the spec. You may be seeing that problem.

Kent

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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