On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:03, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote: > Rob Myers wrote: > > >i can tell you i've had trouble with memory errors on my tyan k8w s2885 > >when i try to use more than 5gb. this is with 2.6.1-rc3-X8664-1 and > >bios v1.01. and beta bios 2885101i won't boot. however, if i use less > >than 5gb this motherboard is rock solid. > What amd64 are you going to use? Opteron or athlon 64 /athlon 64 fx? I > recently saw an article where athlon 64 mobos had problems when using > two sticks of ram... The article is @ > http://www20.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20040112/index.html . dual opteron 248. thanks for the pointer. rob.