Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I've recently acquired an AMD64 box (dual Opteron 242, SiS [EMAIL PROTECTED] motherboard (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=484). See below for more details). I find it very unstable running with 8 GB memory, though 4 GB are not a problem. At first I thought

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Long
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've recently acquired an AMD64 box (dual Opteron 242, SiS [EMAIL PROTECTED] motherboard (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=484). See below for more details). I find it very unstable running with 8 GB memory, though 4 GB are not a p

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > None of these problems occur when I use 4 GB memory. About the only > strangeness, which seems to come from the BIOS, is that it recognizes > only 3.5 GB. If I put all DIMMS in, it recognizes the full 8 GB > memory. > > I rea

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:30:37 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I've recently acquired an AMD64 box ... >> >> What's unstable? ... The amd64 5.4-PRERELEASE kernel just >> hangs/freezes. > > 5.3-RELEASE has a lot of problems with >4GB due to busdma issues. > Those s

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> None of these problems occur when I use 4 GB memory. About the only >> strangeness, which seems to come from the BIOS, is that it recognizes >> only 3.5 GB.

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 10:32:33 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? >> >> Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. > > You could try http://www.memtest86.com although that doesn't do >4Gb

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:24, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I'm pretty sure it's not the memory. I've tried each pair > individually, and it's only when they're both in there together that > it's a problem. And yes, I've tried them in each pair of slots. Could be a marginal timing issue.. You could

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Matthias Buelow
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >I'm pretty sure it's not the memory. I've tried each pair >individually, and it's only when they're both in there together that >it's a problem. And yes, I've tried them in each pair of slots. I'm sure you have checked this aswell but just for completeness, they aren

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 5:54:17 +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure it's not the memory. I've tried each pair >> individually, and it's only when they're both in there together that >> it's a problem. And yes, I've tried them in each pair of slot

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Mar 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: lapic0: LINT1 trigger: edge lapic0: LINT1 polarity: high lapic1: Routing NMI -> LINT1 lapic1: LINT1 trigger: edge lapic1: LINT1 polarity: high -ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard +ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard cpu0 BSP: ID: 0x00

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> lapic0: LINT1 trigger: edge >>> lapic0: LINT1 polarity: high >>> lapic1: Routing NMI -> LINT1 >>> lapic1: LINT1 trigger: edge >>> lapic1: LINT1 polarity: high >>> -ioap

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Long
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: lapic0: LINT1 trigger: edge lapic0: LINT1 polarity: high lapic1: Routing NMI -> LINT1 lapic1: LINT1 trigger: edge lapic1: LINT1 polarity: high -ioapi

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[gratuitous empty lines removed] On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 21:28:36 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> >>> On Mar 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> > lapic0: LINT1 trigger: edge

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Jon Noack
On 03/30/05 23:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 21:28:36 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: lapic0: LINT1 trigger: edge lapic0: LI

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Long
Jon Noack wrote: On 03/30/05 23:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 21:28:36 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: lapic0: LINT1 trigger

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 22:27:43 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Jon Noack wrote: >> On 03/30/05 23:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 21:28:36 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Jon Noack
On 03/30/05 23:49, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 22:27:43 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Jon Noack wrote: On 03/30/05 23:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 21:28:36 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 0:00:22 -0600, Jon Noack wrote: > On 03/30/05 23:49, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> Here's the complete output of acpidump -t, anyway: >> >> >> >> Since I don't know anything about ACPI, this doesn't say too much to >> me. Suggestions welcome. If the APIC section is

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Ganbold
Hi, Since we are discussing AMD64 with 8GB RAM, I also would like to point my problem. I'm still looking for possibility to run FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE with more than 4GB RAM on Dual amd64 2.2GHz machine (IBM @server 325) with ServeRAID 6M (ips driver)). Right now I'm using only 4GB RAM and this serv

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Long
Ganbold wrote: Hi, Since we are discussing AMD64 with 8GB RAM, I also would like to point my problem. I'm still looking for possibility to run FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE with more than 4GB RAM on Dual amd64 2.2GHz machine (IBM @server 325) with ServeRAID 6M (ips driver)). Right now I'm using only 4GB RAM

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:49 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 22:27:43 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > Jon Noack wrote: > >> On 03/30/05 23:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 21:28:36 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehe

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Mar 31, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Jon Noack wrote: My limited research (as in, Google) shows that the MADT was defined as part of ACPI 2.0: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/64bit/IA64_ACPI.mspx According to your previous link the motherboard specs, it supports both ACPI 1.0A and 2.0. Pe

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Mar 30, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: lapic0: LINT1 trigger: edge lapic0: LINT1 polarity: high lapic1: Routing NMI -> LINT1 lapic1: LINT1 trigger: edge lapic

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Mar 31, 2005, at 12:49 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: This may be the case, but between man page and output some terminology must have changed. I can't see any reference to anything like an MADT there. Does that mean that there isn't one, or that ACPI can't find it, or does the section APIC re

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Mar 31, 2005, at 12:27 AM, Scott Long wrote: Jon Noack wrote: On 03/30/05 23:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 21:28:36 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM,

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 03:25:37PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Greg: The busdma problems from 5.3-RELEASE are fixed. That doesn't > mean that there are no *other* problems. Scott is saying "the old > busdma bug shouldn't be affecting 5.4-PRE", and he's correct. > > Most likely, something else

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:14:45AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > I had 4 bad out of 12 tested where the DIMMs were Crucial PC2700 2GB > > Reg. ECC DIMMs. > > OK, this makes sense. It might also explain why the 4 GB > configuration only recognizes 3.5 GB. No. This is due to the 3.5-4.0GB

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:32:33AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > > > > Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. > > You could try http://www.memtest86.com although that doesn't do >4G

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:24:29AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 10:32:33 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > >> > >> Heh. Difficult when the system doesn'

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread Alan Jay
> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:12:35 +0900 > From: Ganbold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? > > Hi, > > Since we are discussing AMD64 with 8GB RAM, I also would like to point my > problem. > > I'm still looking for possib

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 31, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Alan Jay wrote: We did some tests with the latest 5.3-STABLE / 5.4-PRERELEASE and still found the same issues when using a mySQL database heavily hit over the Ethernet controller. Our final tests limited the memory on boot-up to 4Gb and the bug is still there so we

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-04-05 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've recently acquired an AMD64 box (dual Opteron 242, SiS [EMAIL PROTECTED] motherboard (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=484). See below for more details). I find it very unstable running with 8 GB memory, though 4 GB are not a p

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-04-05 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've recently acquired an AMD64 box (dual Opteron 242, SiS [EMAIL PROTECTED] motherboard (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=484). See below for more details). I find it very unstable running with 8 GB memory, though 4 GB are not a p

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-04-08 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:33:05AM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > I'm sorry to come into this discussion after 58 messages, but this board > has been extensively discussed about 1 year ago, because it gave me trouble > to no end (even with 2Gb). One of the early amd64 developers (not David o

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-04-08 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:33:05AM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: I'm sorry to come into this discussion after 58 messages, but this board has been extensively discussed about 1 year ago, because it gave me trouble to no end (even with 2Gb). One of the early amd64 develope

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:14:45AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> None of these problems occur when I use 4 GB memory. About the only > >> strangenes

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Long
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: None of these problems occur when I use 4 GB memory. About the only strangeness, which seems to come from the BIOS, is that it recognize

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Long
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:30:37 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've recently acquired an AMD64 box ... What's unstable? ... The amd64 5.4-PRERELEASE kernel just hangs/freezes. 5.3-RELEASE has a lot of problems with >4GB due to busdma issues.

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:04:44 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:30:37 -0700, Scott Long wrote: >> >>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> I've recently acquired an AMD64 box ... What's unstable? ... The amd64 5.4-PRERELEA

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:01:14 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> None of these problems occur when I use 4 GB memory

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:57:15 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:14:45AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: None of these p

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:15 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:01:14 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > >>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehe

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?=
.. Original Message ... On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14:45 +0930 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > >Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. There is a bootable ISO version of memtest86 that you could try. - ask -- htt

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Long
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:01:14 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: None of these problems occur when I use 4 G

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Long
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:04:44 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:30:37 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've recently acquired an AMD64 box ... What's unstable? ... The amd64 5.4-PRERELEASE

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:09 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:04:44 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:30:37 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I've recently acquired an A

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:22 pm, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > .. Original Message ... > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14:45 +0930 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > > > >Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. > > Ther

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : I've booted with the other 2 DIMMs now (I have 4 2 GB DIMMs, all the : MB will hold). No problems. See my last reply to Scott: I'm : wondering if the system is ignoring the PCI hole. Unlikely. If it

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] [gratuitous empty lines removed] On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:23:34 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:04:44 -0700, Scott Long wrote: >>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:25:37 -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:09 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:04:44 -0700, Scott Long wrote: >>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: As I described, it doesn't appear to be the drivers. >>> >>> I d

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > > Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. You could try http://www.memtest86.com although that doesn't do >4Gb :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:32:33AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > > > > Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. > > You could try http://www.memtest86.com although that doesn't do >4G

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:40, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:32:33AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > > Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > > > > > > Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. > > > > You coul

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? (solved)

2005-04-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 10:59:02 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:24:29AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 10:32:33 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Have you run sysutils/mem

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? (solved)

2005-04-04 Thread Danny Pansters
This may not be related at all, but I've been following this thread and at certain times I wanted to drop in and stress that things like pci express cards should be re-inserted after the RAM has been (re)inserted. Perhaps the BIOSes are really that stupid that they only rely on memory adresses

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? (solved)

2005-04-08 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:09:11AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > The moral of the story is, I suppose, "don't buy the MSI K8T > Master2-FAR". I was warned about the motherboard before I bought it, WHY?? There is nothing wrong with that motherboard -- I have three of them. You are at fault

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? (solved)

2005-04-09 Thread Joel Dahl
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:04 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > The MSI K8T Master2-FAR works fine with 1GB DIMM's. Where on MSI's > website did they state 2GB double-stacked DIMM's were supported? I haven't been following the discussion, but if we're talking about the MSI K8T Master2-FAR, one can read

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? (solved)

2005-04-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 8 April 2005 at 13:04:18 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:09:11AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> The moral of the story is, I suppose, "don't buy the MSI K8T >> Master2-FAR". I was warned about the motherboard before I bought it, > > WHY?? There is nothin

[OT] memtest86 (Was: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?)

2005-03-30 Thread Mike Hunter
On Mar 30, "Peter Wemm" wrote: > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:22 pm, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > .. Original Message ... > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14:45 +0930 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > >> Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > > > > > >Heh