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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:47:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Jin Guojun <jin@george.lbl.gov>
Cc:        thebs@smithconcepts.com, thebs@theseus.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: K7V problem? <- Make sure DIMM is in slot 1
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010130843560.97143-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <200010131536.e9DFaAL13073@portnoy.lbl.gov>

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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jin Guojun wrote:

: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.

That's odd, since the board will take 3 512M PC133 DIMMs.  I'm not aware
of what exactly is meant by 'registered DIMMs', could someone explain.
The machine runs NT Server 4.0 and Win98 just fine, and I realize FBSD
tends to use hardware more aggressively.  If the memory were incompatible,
I would think nothing would run.

Jamie Bowden

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