Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:00:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Anthony Rubin" <arubin@concentric.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus K7V with Crucial PC133 ECC RAM Message-ID: <200007120100.SAA00561@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:43:36 CDT." <002501bfeb9a$36bbc6f0$b8850140@r2d2>
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> 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) There's nothing wrong with your RAM - some of it is being used by the kernel. > 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. Memory doesn't just sort of dribble away when it's faulty. 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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