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From: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov>
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To: ragnar@sysabend.org, thebs@smithconcepts.com, thebs@theseus.com
Subject: Re: K7V problem? <- Make sure DIMM is in slot 1
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Bryan -TheBS- Smith <thebs@theseus.com> wrote:
> > The machine in question is an Athlon/850 on an Asus K7V (BIOS 1007) with a
> > 256M PC-133 DIMM.  
> >     ...
> > When attempting to boot from the CD, the machine locks immediately after
> > the adaptec card reports "SCSI BIOS installed successfully".  Hard locks.
> > requires hard reset.  This is the same for a Win98 CD.  Something in the
> > way FBSD and Win98 load themselves into memory is obviously unhappy.
> >     ...
> 
> 9 times out of 10, the problem I have with registered DIMMs
> (256MB+) as well as PC133 is the failure to put the DIMMs in slot
>...

Hmmm, the manual says: "registered DIMMs are not supported." (P20, P22).
It looks like not a slot problem, but the memory type.

	-Jin


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