I have an ECS K7S5A board and tried putting 2x512 DDR2100 DIMMS into the thing. It boots up, but I get an error in dmesg about only 896MB being available. So, following some instructions I found on forums.gentoo.org, I enabled highmem support (4gb) in the kernel and recompiled. From that moment on, I got nothing but kernel panic errors on start!
The RAM tests just fine. I tossed in the memtest86 CD and let it run for 24 hours - not one single error. The same RAM works perfect in another box with the same board running Windows XP (I have 5 of these boards and haven't had a single problem so far - 1 board is in a linux box, but it only has 512mb RAM)
I got the kernel panics to go away by removing highmem support, and putting 1x512 module and 1x256 module in the box instead. 768MB RAM isn't too bad, but I can't figure out why it was crashing. =/
I'm using gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 on all of the machines. Has anybody ever used one of these boards with 1gb RAM? =/
Thanks!
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