brent saner on 28 Mar 2008 06:07:09 -0700 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Brian Vagnoni wrote: | BODY{font:10pt Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;} All KVR Registered | DDR400 ECC. Say dimm's 0 - 7, 2 banks of 4. It's a Tyan S2885 | motherboard. Processors 2 AMD Op 270's and are E6 stepping. | | Dimms 0 - 5 are 6 sticks x 512mb each giving me a total of 3GB, | dimms 6 - 7 are 1gb sticks for a total of 2gb. I think my problem is | the following. I will need get 2 more 1gb sticks and replace dimms 4 | - 5 with them. | | When I go into BIOS and set the E6 stepping hardware memory hole I | only get 3888MB showing at bios boot instead of the usual 5120mb. | However for a few seconds at bios boot it shows 5998mb then decrease | to 3888mb. I think it wants to see at least the same size in the | same bank. So 4 x 1gb in bank 1 and 4 x 512mb in bank 0. I think the | interweave is also adding to the problem. Setting the MTRR to either | discrete, or continuous in the BIOS has no effect on the size of the | memory. | | Does that make sense & sound like a plan to you? | | Brian Vagnoni | that's certainly a plan to take. i've heard reports of ecc and dual-core AND 64-bit playing not-so-nicely together. i think before everything you should run some stresstests from a bootdisk and so forth. i'm not convinced it's not something hardware as opposed to configuration. has this been a persistent or recent problem? - -- Brent Saner 215.264.0112(cell) 215.362.7696(residence) http://www.thenotebookarmy.org Bill Gates is to hacking as Sid Vicious was to the Sex Pistols: no talent, everyone hates him, and he's just in it for the fame and money. GPG INFO: pub 1024D/832D950A 2008-01-26 uid Brent Timothy Saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> uid Brent Timothy Saner (ACE Technology Group, www.acetechgroup.com) <sanerb@acetechgroup.com> sub 4096g/1C18F61D 2008-01-26 (pgp.mit.edu) FINGERPRINT: 91EC 3B91 17E3 84E8 662A 9911 F2ED 9987 832D 950A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH7O1w8u2Zh4MtlQoRA5osAJ48KEeNFLcC2Z6FABYFtFSserkGGQCg23FL M2CH6pN/+HuhOAf2qTiwEhk= =VsMs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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