From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 11 17:39:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.118.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605E037B903 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arubin@concentric.net) Received: from marconi.concentric.net (marconi.concentric.net [206.173.118.71]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id UAA23122; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:38:41 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from r2d2 (w184.z064001133.chi-il.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.133.184]) by marconi.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id UAA22042; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:38:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002501bfeb9a$36bbc6f0$b8850140@r2d2> From: "Anthony Rubin" To: Subject: Asus K7V with Crucial PC133 ECC RAM Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:43:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I recently put together a system that uses the Asus K7V motherboard with Crucial PC133 ECC RAM. I bought 2 128MB DIMMs. The BIOS is seeing the RAM correctly as 264144K, but FreeBSD has 262064K listed under real memory. I thought this was odd and wanted to make sure one of the DIMMs wasn't bad so I removed both and then tried one at a time. No matter which DIMM I use and which slot I put it in the BIOS sees 131072K and FreeBSD sees 130992K. The only other thing that is strange about this setup is that the K7V BIOS currently has a known problem when you enable ECC so ECC is currently disabled on my board. Below is the portion of dmesg I am referring to. > dmesg | grep memory real memory = 268353536 (262064K bytes) avail memory = 256950272 (250928K bytes) Perhaps I am being a bit paranoid but I'd rather exchange parts now if I have to. I ran a cvsup and make world without any problems. I also ran the dnetc client for a day without problems. While this probably proves nothing, the system does seem to be running great. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message