> > I tried upgrading the memory in my Asus VX2s from > 2 > > to 4 GB. I dual boot both Solaris and Vista, > Vista > > as fine with the new memory and cpu-z verified > that > > it was running at the proper speed, etc. > > However, something about having the additional > memory > > sends Solaris in the tank, booting goes to a 5 or > 6 > > minute process and various things seem to not work > > properly i.e. various complaints on shutdown about > > i/o that didn't complete, etc. Anybody seen > > something similar or have an Idea what might be > going > > on? > > Yes. It was a BIOS bug, BIOS didn't setup the last > few MBs > of physical memory as cachable in MTRR registers. > Apparently Solaris did put something important into > the > uncachable area and this resulted in a massive slow > down. > > It was fixed with a BIOS upgrade. Before the fixed > BIOS > was available, we worked around the problem with a > grub "uppermem 2500000" command
Hmm, I'm running the latest BIOS (301 dated 2008/01/04) available for the VX2S as far as the asus support site shows. Is that the fixed version?. However, I have reverted the laptop to 2Gig of memory and It's possible I upgraded the BIOS after I did that. I will try again -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
