N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Brad Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-12 11:09:29 -0800]:
or singly, not in pairs...
This should never be the case. If your memory is acceptable one module
at a time, why wouldn't the system accept two?
Capacitive loading, for one reason. Not
Howdy,
I just added RAM to my computer, and upon boot I get a panic. I'm
enclosing the debug session script output, but first a bit of
background...
The computer has two slots for DIMMs, and was using both before, with
generic 256MB sticks. I removed both of those and put in two 512MB
sticks of
Hi
Your conclusion is wrong. I'm using 2 512MB sticks of ram without problem...
Brad Marsh wrote:
Howdy,
I just added RAM to my computer, and upon boot I get a panic. I'm
enclosing the debug session script output, but first a bit of
background...
The computer has two slots for DIMMs, and was
* Brad Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-12 09:33:37 -0800]:
I removed both of those and put in two 512MB sticks of Kingston PC2700
RAM - and that's when I got the panic.
[...]
So my comclusion is that FreeBSD is having trouble booting with 2
512MB RAM sticks. The BIOS recognizes the RAM ok
OK...in agreement, I've read that memory modules will sometimes work in
pairs, not individually, or singly, not in pairs...
Thanks!
P.S. Juraj, you're right. I'm sure FreeBSD can handle more than 1GB
RAM - it's just my system. I was hoping someone could look at the debug
info and say something
* Brad Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-12 11:09:29 -0800]:
OK...in agreement, I've read that memory modules will sometimes work
in pairs, not individually
Older memory/systems used to only take memory that worked in pairs,
newer ones shouldn't have that problem. In the worst case, it may
vmcore file.
Thanks again!
--- Brad Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:58:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Brad Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help with panic: vm_fault
To: Mark Tinguely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does the Mainboard say that it can handle this amount
of RAM
