From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 7 08:29:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA03557 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:29:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from pobox1.oit.umass.edu (mailhub.oit.umass.edu [128.119.166.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA03552 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu) Received: from lessing.oit.umass.edu by pobox1.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #20973) with ESMTP id <0EHO003NQTNXZO@pobox1.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:28:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by lessing.oit.umass.edu (8.8.3/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA12216 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 1997 11:28:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 11:28:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak Subject: Finicky SDRAM To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm sorry to post this here. It's really not FreeBSD related, but I'm in kind of a jam, and I hope someone can help me. I recently bought an M-Tech R534F mb with Cyrix P200+ and generic SDRAM. Apparently this SDRAM isn't happy on the board. It crashed every time when I tried to install from CD with SDRAM but the install goes OK with simms. (I assume the RAM is the problem since I saw the same behavior with another mb). My vendor will swap the SDRAM for Hyundai or Samsung electronics, but will not refund my full purchase price (I bought this two months ago), so I'd rather go with the swap than take a $25 dollar loss. Does anyone have any experience with these mobo/proc/memory combos? Any recommendations? Thanks. Greg