From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 3:25:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (sockittome.aldigital.co.uk [194.128.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8613337B417 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 03:25:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from algroup.co.uk (wiese.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.150]) by scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320C413608; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:25:10 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3C189015.8E6F4701@algroup.co.uk> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:25:09 +0000 From: Ben Laurie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Willcox Cc: dochawk@psu.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 GB? References: <20011212092409.C58771@luke.immure.com> <200112122158.fBCLwTZ08996@fac13.ds.psu.edu> <20011212161021.A96739@luke.immure.com> <3C17D9CF.A356BB1D@algroup.co.uk> <20011212163607.C96739@luke.immure.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bob Willcox wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:27:27PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote: > > Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:58:29PM -0500, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > > > > bob bobbled, > > > > > > > > > In my experience, this type of problem has always turned out to be > > > > > hardware. The more memory DIMMs you install in a MB the more likely it > > > > > is to happen. I was able to _finally_ get my two dual Athlon systems > > > > > with Tyan S2460 MBs to work with 1GB (4 256MB DIMMs for a total of 8 > > > > > banks of memory), but only after replacing the MBs with newer revisions. > > > > > Prior to doing that, I had one of them (with the older rev MB) run fine > > > > > for 2 months before failing. > > > > > > > > err, don't the specs say it can only handle a six bank load? > > > > > > I think they do now, but Tyan used to claim that it supported 8 banks. > > > Indeed, they list a "typical" configuration in their user's manual as > > > having 4 256MB DIMMs, i.e., 8 banks. It seems that they revised their > > > spec to only 6 banks when they discovered 8 banks were a problem. :-) > > > > Funnily enough this is a Tyan board :-) > > > > Anyone want to recommend one that is known to work? > > Which Tyan board is it? My informants claim: S2266 trinity 510. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message