Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:41:48 -0400 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> Cc: justin v <vic@yeaguy.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately Message-ID: <AANLkTin=FBx_t=a0nAuc9tdQyriVj4nucsr7RbgzTn_f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CD36D68.5060100@radel.com> References: <op.vlodtf0g82l4o8@hbca.yeaguy.com> <4CD36D68.5060100@radel.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> wrote: > On 11/4/10 10:13 PM, justin v wrote: > >> >> I installed 4GB or memory today. I rebooted and see this, the first line >> after the splash menu thing: >> >> 983040K of memory above 4GB ignored >> >> dmesg shows avail mem amount and I am concerned as well: >> >> real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) >> avail memory = 3139940352 (2994 MB) >> >> is a stick bad perhaps? >> >> Start by reading > http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-memory.html > > If that doesn't cover it, come back here and include a little information > about the version of FreeBSD and the hardware you're using. > > Justin, where you the one who was getting weird coredumps w/ no data and memtest86 beeped at you? On a side note, mismatched pairs might cause this .... bank's 0-1 need to match each other in speed/size and banks 2-3 have to match each other but banks 0-1 don't have to match banks 2-3 ... (e.g. My desktop has 2 2GB Modules and 2 1GB modules for a total of 6gb (in my case they are the same speed all across (DDR2/800) hth/chris Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; > -- > > --Jon Radel > jon@radel.com > > >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?AANLkTin=FBx_t=a0nAuc9tdQyriVj4nucsr7RbgzTn_f>