Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card (solved)

2009-04-02 Thread Rick
In article m3vdqkeflz@luke.xen.prgmr.com, Luke S Crawford centos@centos.org wrote: Have you tried memtest86? No, but if that was the problem it wouldn't have failed the same way each time. I finally got some time to deal with this today. I tried several more things and finally made it

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:20 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card 3) Some motherboards (many) will not accept different size DIMMs at the same

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Rick
In article f4e013870903082220s772af2d7o22c9686d6f134...@mail.gmail.com, MHR centos@centos.org wrote: 2) Your answer above was not clear: did the 4GB work by itself without the other 2GB? If so, the above is your problem. If not, you're in deeper guano that you think, BUT: The 4GB had the same

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Rick
In article 12768.4492654682$1236586...@news.gmane.org, Sorin Srbu centos@centos.org wrote: If the motherboard supports dual-channel configs, one might want to take care how one distributes the different mem-sticks in the banks. Eg the 2GB-sticks in bank 1 and 3 and the 4GB-sticks in banks 2 and

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 09.03.2009 11:09, Rick wrote: Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB alone did not work in the same slots the 2GB sticks were in. So, either the memory sticks are bad (one or two of them), or the memory have bad timing in some way making them not compatible with the

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rick Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:10 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card If the motherboard supports dual-channel configs, one might want to take care

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Morten Torstensen Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 12:14 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:14 +0100, Morten Torstensen wrote: On 09.03.2009 11:09, Rick wrote: Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB alone did not work in the same slots the 2GB sticks were in. So, either the memory sticks are bad (one or two of them), or the memory

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
Rick wrote: In article f4e013870903082220s772af2d7o22c9686d6f134...@mail.gmail.com, MHR centos@centos.org wrote: 2) Your answer above was not clear: did the 4GB work by itself without the other 2GB? If so, the above is your problem. If not, you're in deeper guano that you think, BUT:

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
William L. Maltby wrote: So, if you've got the leeway, try manually bumping the voltage for the unit a couple of tenths. Risk is low, but it is there. The OP said earlier he has an Intel D975XBX motherboard. Intel boards are very conservatively engineered, and don't have tweaks for

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009, John R Pierce wrote: ... ok, then you have the wrong 4GB (2x2GB?) sticks. You might review the memory specs for your motherboard, not all DDR2 is the same. http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d975xbx/sb/CS-026567.htm I usually go to the Kingston site to find

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Robert Nichols
Rick wrote: In article 12768.4492654682$1236586...@news.gmane.org, Sorin Srbu centos@centos.org wrote: If the motherboard supports dual-channel configs, one might want to take care how one distributes the different mem-sticks in the banks. Eg the 2GB-sticks in bank 1 and 3 and the

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Luke S Crawford
Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com writes: I usually go to the Kingston site to find the proper memory for specific main boards, and get most of our RAM from newegg.com. http://www.kingston.com http://www.newegg.com I second this, except that I find Kingston often has the best

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 19:27 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Rick wrote: In article 20090308031754.ga11...@bludgeon.org, Ray Van Dolson centos@centos.org wrote: That sounds pretty strange. Have you confirmed that removing the new memory allows you to run in runlevel 5 again?

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Louis Lagendijk lo...@lagendijk.xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 19:27 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Rick wrote: In article 20090308031754.ga11...@bludgeon.org, Ray Van Dolson  

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread Richard Karhuse
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Rick el...@spinics.net wrote: Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB to 6. When I installed the memory every thing was fine until I went to run level 5. At that point the screen turned to garbage and the system froze. Is there a

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 09:16 -0400, Richard Karhuse wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Rick el...@spinics.net wrote: Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB ... Forth, what (precisely) CentOS kernel are you booting?? Does it support greater than 4 GB of

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread Rick
In article 20090308031754.ga11...@bludgeon.org, Ray Van Dolson centos@centos.org wrote: That sounds pretty strange. Have you confirmed that removing the new memory allows you to run in runlevel 5 again? Yes, that's how I'm running right now. ___

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
Rick wrote: In article 20090308031754.ga11...@bludgeon.org, Ray Van Dolson centos@centos.org wrote: That sounds pretty strange. Have you confirmed that removing the new memory allows you to run in runlevel 5 again? Yes, that's how I'm running right now. now, try taking out

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread Rick
In article 49b47e99.1090...@hogranch.com, John R Pierce centos@centos.org wrote: now, try taking out the OLD memory and putting in just the NEW memory. see how it runs that way. if this works, try with the new 4GB as the 0 bank, and the old 2GB as the 1 bank. Tried that before I posted and

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread MHR
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Rick el...@spinics.net wrote: In article 49b47e99.1090...@hogranch.com, John R Pierce  centos@centos.org wrote: now, try taking out the OLD memory and putting in just the NEW memory. see how it runs that way.   if this works, try with the new 4GB as the 0 bank,

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:00:59AM +, Rick wrote: Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB to 6. When I installed the memory every thing was fine until I went to run level 5. At that point the screen turned to garbage and the system froze. Is there a way to

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-07 Thread Luke S Crawford
Rick el...@spinics.net writes: Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB to 6. When I installed the memory every thing was fine until I went to run level 5. At that point the screen turned to garbage and the system froze. Is there a way to fix this so I can use