Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:47:52 +0000 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic) Message-ID: <200503162147.52931.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <4237A3A3.3040704@bigfoot.com> References: <4237A3A3.3040704@bigfoot.com>
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On Wednesday 16 March 2005 03:10, Jean Lagarde wrote: > I have been troubleshooting reboots over the last weekend, I think I > might have enough clues now to get some useful hints from an expert. > > FreeBSD 5.3-release (see dmesg below for details) > > The problem seems to be with trying to run with 1.5GB vice 512MB of RAM. > The system has not had problems so far when I only leave the 512MB stick > in. When I add the 1GB stick the system will reboot at specific times, > for example, while trying to launch KDE3 or trying to make OpenOffice > (always reboots at "Extracting for openoffice-1.1.2-1"). I do not see > any panic in the messages log, the system just silently reboots. Have you checked your motherboard's manual for allowed memory combinations? I was thinking of making the same upgrade, but I looked through the table of supported configurations and I noticed that for DDR 400 memory, I should only have 1 double-sided stick. As I understand it, most DDR400 memory at 0.5 and 1GB is currently double-sided.
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