Thanks Ryan , I wondered whether 4QW and 8QW might be something to do with memory.But,
Ryan Moe wrote:
If you have SDRAM don't worry about it.I have 512BM of DDR Ram.
It doesn't make a difference. However if you have DDR then setting the burst rate to 4qw instead ofI have a MSI K7T266 Pro2 Mobo, capable of up to 3.0gigs of memory. I cannot find a reference to the memory controller in the mobo manual. It does say you can install PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM modules on the DDR DIMM slots (DDR1-3) I believe they run on 2,5v as against 3.3v. In addition I have seen a reference somewhere that this mobo has a nForce-128 bit memory bus, but I don't think that is relevant is it .
8qw will make your average bandwidth the same as SDRAM (although you'll
still have twice the peak bandwidth). What m/b and memory controller are
you using?
I don't know. Some generic make, I think.What brand of ram do you have? Certain brands of ram (mostly the cheap kind) don't support some bios memory options.
But if it works fine in W2K on 8QW, then it ought to work fine in Mandrake as well. I guess mandrake needs tweeking somehow ?
See, I had bios set on 4QW when mandrake was installed, only found out afterwards I could up it to 8QW, and the manual references it being faster, I thought I would try it out. Trouble is Mandrake boots up OK, I get to a login ,I login and a blue desktop arrives, but does not complete to the full thing with all the taskbar etc, and the mouse cursor hangs, indeed the whole computer hangs, I cannot even shutdown, I have to crash it.
John
Ryan
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:50, John Richard Smith wrote:
My AMI bios has a section "Advance Chipset Features"
In there is a section BURST LENGTH with the options 4QW and 8QW
According to handbook this allows you to set the size of the Burst-Length for DRAM.
The bigger the size the faster the DRAM performance.
I altered my bios setting to 8QW from 4QW and found everything boots fine in W2K,
but that Xwindows hangs on Mandrake 9.0.
It seems a pity to have to choose the slower setting just because of mandrake.
Is there any way of getting Mandrake to work with the higher setting ?
John
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