Thanks to all who replied, you've given me a couple ideas to try.
Sorry if I don't quote you all here, but you know who you are.
> On 14-Oct-2000 Jonathan Wilson spoke something to the effect:
> > I could be very wrong, but I thought the proper thing was mem="128M".
> >
> > Did you check the lilo docs?
First place I looked. Then I checked the list archives at moongroup
(thank you Chuck, they're invaluable!). I tried every variation of
the 'append' command I could find in the archives.
> > Other then that, I"d like to say that there's probably nothing worse then
> > bad RAM. It very well may be bad - consider trying a new stick. Get PNY,
> > Kensington or Corsair. And do /not/ get ram with tin teeth - only gold.
> > Many makers are starting to use tin for cost efficiency, but it corrodes
> > in about 2 years, and often corrodes the slot in the mobo along with it.
>
Wish I had the final say on what memory gets bought ( personally I use
nothing but Crucial and have yet to have a problem ).
Uncle Meat wrote:
>
> You might try again, Rob, without the spaces and see what happens.
I'll give it another go, if for no other reason than to demonstrate
the problem to 'the powers that be'.
> Another possibility is that the video memory is taken from the ram (had one
> once that did that) and it's leaving a hole in memory. 'Doze seems able to
> handle it (after all, this was likely one of M$'s ways of getting things
> "better" for everyone by making sure nobody else could use it). But, linux
> stops looking after it finds an empty memory position. If the bios can't
> let you remap it, the video section may have a jumper for memory mapping
> which can push its theft of resources to the top of the heap. Otherwise,
> the memory it's seeing is all you'll ever get.
Hmmmm...I'll have to do some more looking into this. Other posts mentioned
playing with they way the video memory is configured. If all else fails
perhaps I can disable the on board video and put a card from my stash
into the box.
> If it's neither of these, I'm outta ideas.
Thanks again to you and all who have offered ideas. I've been blessed
by good hardware ( or perhaps more careful about my purchases than
my employer ) so I've gotten a tad rusty in trouble shooting hardware
problems.
> --
> You will become rich and famous. Unless you don't.
Thanks Unka, I'll keep that in mind. ;-)
~Rob
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