From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 14:11:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [207.8.42.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C35437B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:11:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBCMALh00207; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:10:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:10:21 -0600 From: Bob Willcox To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: Ben Laurie , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 GB? Message-ID: <20011212161021.A96739@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <20011212092409.C58771@luke.immure.com> <200112122158.fBCLwTZ08996@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112122158.fBCLwTZ08996@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from dochawk@psu.edu on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:58:29PM -0500 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 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. :-) Bob > > hawk > > -- > What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign > dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail > These opinions will not be those of X and postings. > Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ > -- Bob Willcox Boucher's Observation: bob@vieo.com He who blows his own horn always plays the music Austin, TX several octaves higher than originally written. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message