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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>
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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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