Re: [newbie] 128MB becomes 64MB when overclocked
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Supprised it booted, what flavor video card? A lowly Matrox Mystique PCI (and Rainbow Runner daughtercard). The original, not the 220 model. Windoze and linuz use totaly different methods for determining the available ram, simply append="mem=128M" in your lilo.conf I shall endeavor to apply said instructions, and will report forthwith (sorry, beer factor mode enabled! :)
RE: [newbie] 128MB becomes 64MB when overclocked
I don't know if the Abit board fully supports faster FSB setting than 66mhz, as it's a Celeron only board. I run a Tyan Tiger100 S1832, with dual MSI Socket to slot converters, and 2x Celeron 466 clocked to 85mhz (1200+bogomips)on the fsb and that works fine. BUT I am using a board that designed to run at 100mhz over the FSB. I am planning to add some serious (cryogenic) cooling, and run to 95mhz (1340+ BogoMIPS. Sorry I digress. The point is, I am not sure how well the Mobo will handle the frequency, considering it's not a P2 or P3 board. My reccomendation is to change your ETC/LILO.CONF, and add the statement APPEND="MEM=128M". Then run /SBIN/LILO. If that doesn't work, try dropping your FSB speed down a notch, untill the memory come back. Regards Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Boze Sent: 18 November 1999 11:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 128MB becomes 64MB when overclocked Hi, folks. I've got an Abit BP6 motherboard with two Celeron 466MHz processors and 128MB of PC133 ECC RAM. At normal clock speed, Linux reports 128MB RAM, as expected. But when I started overclocking, Linux immediately reported 64MB! Currently running at 574MHz, nice and comfy, with Linux Mandrake 6.1, kernel 2.2.13-7mdksmp, compiled #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 16:38:50 CEST 1999. With version 6.0, I compiled (not entirely successfully) an SMP version of the standard kernel. I seem to recall something about enabling enhanced Real Time Clock support, due to the SMP. Right now I'm using the installed SMP kernel. Windoze reports 128MB at the same overclock, so I wonder if Linux is relying on the bus speed? Currently it's 82MHz, instead of the standard 66MHz. Any thoughts appreciated. Doug
Re: [newbie] 128MB becomes 64MB when overclocked
Windoze reports 128MB at the same overclock, so I wonder if Linux is relying on the bus speed? Currently it's 82MHz, instead of the standard 66MHz. Any thoughts appreciated. Doug Yeah Doug, before you worry about the ram amount, you might ought'a be concerned about HDD's running on a 41 mhz pci bus. Just too far off spec, 7x82/41/82, and I suspect your actual FSB is 83/41.5 mhz. Even IBM and WD HDD's have trouble sooner or later at 41 mhz. I believe 30 to 37 mhz is an acceptable range. The ram mismatch might be due to the SMP kernel, I tried 2.2.13-22 for a while, which had SMP support enabled altho the rpm didn't say smp. My 128 ram was reported as 96. No other kernel has had it wrong, including a ready made -7mdk, and a -7mdk I compiled from source with a sl35d 4.5/126/31.5/(unused agp). Another thing I've seen a lot of o/c'rs report is that Abit's sometimes have trouble seeing ram in one dimm slot, but not another. Try moving the ram around. 'Course why do you use PC133, specially ECC, at 82 mhz ? -- .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [newbie] 128MB becomes 64MB when overclocked
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Doug Boze wrote: Hi, folks. I've got an Abit BP6 motherboard with two Celeron 466MHz processors and 128MB of PC133 ECC RAM. At normal clock speed, Linux reports 128MB RAM, as expected. But when I started overclocking, Linux immediately reported 64MB! Currently running at 574MHz, nice and comfy, with Linux Mandrake 6.1, kernel 2.2.13-7mdksmp, compiled #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 16:38:50 CEST 1999. Supprised it booted, what flavor video card? With version 6.0, I compiled (not entirely successfully) an SMP version of the standard kernel. I seem to recall something about enabling enhanced Real Time Clock support, due to the SMP. Right now I'm using the installed SMP kernel. Windoze reports 128MB at the same overclock, so I wonder if Linux is relying on the bus speed? Currently it's 82MHz, instead of the standard 66MHz. Windoze and linuz use totaly different methods for determining the available ram, simply append="mem=128M" in your lilo.conf Any thoughts appreciated. Doug -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
