[SOLVED] Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/02/14 12:54 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: On 12/02/2014 11:26, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/02/14 07:40 AM, Roberto Scattini wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net mailto:garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-12 Thread Roberto Scattini
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+ shows 8G working when I run it against the 2x4G and the 1x8G. My system runs fine, except for the thrashing, with 8G. It's one application that causes the

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/02/14 07:40 AM, Roberto Scattini wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net mailto:garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+ shows 8G working when I run it against the 2x4G and the 1x8G. My system

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On 12/02/2014 11:26, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/02/14 07:40 AM, Roberto Scattini wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net mailto:garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+ shows 8G working when I run it against

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: [...] Your suggestion that it is the 8G + 1x4G which is being recognized Not quite what I was trying to suggest. I was oversimplifying significantly.

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: [...] Your suggestion that it is the 8G + 1x4G which is being recognized Not quite what I was trying to suggest.

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: [...] Your suggestion that it is the 8G + 1x4G which is being recognized

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/11/2014 9:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: [...] Your suggestion that

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/11/2014 10:03 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/11/2014 9:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/11/2014 10:13 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 10:03 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/11/2014 9:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2014 10:40 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: ... 1. Contact Gigabyte support 2. Buy another identical 8GB DIMM, or exchange this one for two 4s Should have mentioned this sooner. Gary have you flashed the BIOS to the latest rev? As I stated previously, if POST reports 16GB but the e820 map

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/11/2014 06:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: [...] Your suggestion

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/02/14 12:09 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/11/2014 06:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/10/2014 03:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2014 2:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: [...] Have you run memtest yet? Yes. After the other comments, I gave it a try. It also only sees 12G. I find this confusing in that the board apparently works with a mixture

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2014 4:28 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 03:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/10/2014 2:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/14 10:00 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: [...] Have you run memtest yet? Yes. After the other comments, I gave it a try. It also only sees 12G. I find this confusing in that the

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/14 11:40 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/10/2014 4:28 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 03:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/10/2014 2:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote:

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread doug
On 02/10/2014 11:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 10:00 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: [...] Have you run memtest yet? Yes. After the other comments, I gave it a try. It also only

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: [...] Sorry, but it still makes very little sense. When I turn off interleaving, the BIOS should try to access all the memory 32bits at a time. This would, one should expect, allow the memory to be accessed in full. Okay,

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the programs I use were causing excessive thrashing. I added a 1x8G DDR3 stick (got a good price

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the programs I use were causing excessive

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/9/2014 7:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G

more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-08 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the programs I use were causing excessive thrashing. I added a 1x8G DDR3 stick (got a good price on it, much cheaper than adding 2x4G) which resolved the thrashing problem.