R. G. Newbury wrote:
Re: System lockup problem with 7G of memory and PAE kernel - FC7
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > Can you try with 6G of memory? I've not known many MB's or BIOS to
> > work well with odd numbers. :-)
> While I can see some value in trying a different amount, I'd be
> surprised at "7 being an odd number," being the issue. It's not going
> to be exactly 7,000,000,000, it'll be a rounded figure.
It is most likely due to a mismatch of memory sticks. Most motherboards
seem to have particular requirements about filling the memory slots with
memory. And you must have a 'balanced' setup with matched amounts in
the lower numbered slots.
DDR2 is even worse. I don't think you can do DDR2 with an odd number of
memory sticks. Which leads to the question of how did you get 7Gig of
RAM. I didn't think that 4Gig ram modules were available yet, which
imply you have 3 times 2G plus 1G in modules. And the MB does not like
the fact that you have 2G in slot 3 and 1G in slot 4.
Try with 6G (3x2) and 5 (2x2+1)...5G *may* work since there would be
nothing in slot 4 to cause a problem.
Geoff
Tux says: Be regular. Eat Cron flakes.
The board is a Tyan server board with 8 slots 2 sets of 4 so... 3 x 1 g
+ 1 x 1/2 G in each group. Note that M$ had no problem with the memory
nor the memory test from the install CD.
Cokey
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