Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card (solved)

2009-04-02 Thread Rick
In article , Luke S Crawford wrote: >Have you tried memtest86? No, but if that was the problem it wouldn't have failed the same way each time. I finally got some time to deal with this today. I tried several more things and finally made it work by installing a BIOS update. Sure feals nice t

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Victor Padro wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Louis Lagendijk > wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 19:27 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >> > Rick wrote: >> > > In article <20090308031754.ga11...@bludgeon.org>, >> > > Ray Van Dolson   wrote: >> > > >> > > >

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 19:27 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > Rick wrote: > > > In article <20090308031754.ga11...@bludgeon.org>, > > > Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > > > > > > > >> That sounds pretty strange. Have you confirmed that removing th

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 19:27 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Rick wrote: > > In article <20090308031754.ga11...@bludgeon.org>, > > Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > > > > >> That sounds pretty strange. Have you confirmed that removing the "new" > >> memory allows you to run in runlevel 5 again? > >>

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Luke S Crawford
Bill Campbell writes: > I usually go to the Kingston site to find the proper memory for > specific main boards, and get most of our RAM from newegg.com. > > http://www.kingston.com > > http://www.newegg.com I second this, except that I find Kingston often has the best price for ram,

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Robert Nichols
Rick wrote: > In article <12768.4492654682$1236586...@news.gmane.org>, > Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> If the motherboard supports dual-channel configs, one might want to take >> care >> how one distributes the different mem-sticks in the banks. Eg the 2GB-sticks >> in bank 1 and 3 and the 4GB-sticks

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009, John R Pierce wrote: ... >ok, then you have the wrong 4GB (2x2GB?) sticks. You might review the >memory specs for your motherboard, not all DDR2 is the same. >http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d975xbx/sb/CS-026567.htm I usually go to the Kingston site to fi

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
William L. Maltby wrote: > So, if you've got the leeway, try manually bumping the voltage for the > unit a couple of tenths. Risk is low, but it is there. > The OP said earlier he has an Intel D975XBX motherboard. Intel boards are very conservatively engineered, and don't have tweaks for ov

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
Rick wrote: > In article , > MHR wrote: > > >> 2) Your answer above was not clear: did the 4GB work by itself without >> the other 2GB? If so, the above is your problem. If not, you're in >> deeper guano that you think, BUT: >> > > The 4GB had the same problem with and without the 2GB.

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:14 +0100, Morten Torstensen wrote: > On 09.03.2009 11:09, Rick wrote: > > Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB alone did not > > work in the same slots the 2GB sticks were in. > > So, either the memory sticks are bad (one or two of them), or the me

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Morten Torstensen >Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 12:14 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card > >> Well, yeah, of course. B

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Rick >Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:10 AM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card > >>If the motherboard supports dual-channel

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 09.03.2009 11:09, Rick wrote: > Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB alone did not > work in the same slots the 2GB sticks were in. So, either the memory sticks are bad (one or two of them), or the memory have bad timing in some way making them not compatible with the m

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Rick
In article <12768.4492654682$1236586...@news.gmane.org>, Sorin Srbu wrote: >If the motherboard supports dual-channel configs, one might want to take care >how one distributes the different mem-sticks in the banks. Eg the 2GB-sticks >in bank 1 and 3 and the 4GB-sticks in banks 2 and 4. Well, ye

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Rick
In article , MHR wrote: >2) Your answer above was not clear: did the 4GB work by itself without >the other 2GB? If so, the above is your problem. If not, you're in >deeper guano that you think, BUT: The 4GB had the same problem with and without the 2GB. >Also, by "running in 64-bit mode" (pr

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of MHR >Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:20 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card > >3) Some motherboards (many) will not accept

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread MHR
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Rick wrote: > In article <49b47e99.1090...@hogranch.com>, > John R Pierce   wrote: > >>now, try taking out the OLD memory and putting in just the NEW memory. >>see how it runs that way.   if this works, try with the new 4GB as the 0 >>bank, and the old 2GB as the 1

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread Rick
In article <49b47e99.1090...@hogranch.com>, John R Pierce wrote: >now, try taking out the OLD memory and putting in just the NEW memory. >see how it runs that way. if this works, try with the new 4GB as the 0 >bank, and the old 2GB as the 1 bank. Tried that before I posted and got the same

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
Rick wrote: > In article <20090308031754.ga11...@bludgeon.org>, > Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > >> That sounds pretty strange. Have you confirmed that removing the "new" >> memory allows you to run in runlevel 5 again? >> > > Yes, that's how I'm running right now. > now, try taking out t

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread Rick
In article <1236521803.29529.43.ca...@poq1.tabb.loc>, Phil Schaffner wrote: >Lots of good suggestions, but this would seem to be a likely cause, and >easiest to check. If you are running i386 you need a PAE kernel. I thought of that. But I'm running 64 bit mode. __

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread Rick
In article <20090308031754.ga11...@bludgeon.org>, Ray Van Dolson wrote: >That sounds pretty strange. Have you confirmed that removing the "new" >memory allows you to run in runlevel 5 again? Yes, that's how I'm running right now. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 09:16 -0400, Richard Karhuse wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Rick wrote: > > Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 > > GB ... > Forth, what (precisely) CentOS kernel are you booting?? Does it > support greater than 4 GB of RAM?? Lots

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread Richard Karhuse
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Rick wrote: > Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB > to 6. When I installed the memory every thing was fine until I went to > run level 5. At that point the screen turned to garbage and the system > froze. Is there a way to fix thi

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-07 Thread Luke S Crawford
Rick writes: > Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB > to 6. When I installed the memory every thing was fine until I went to > run level 5. At that point the screen turned to garbage and the system > froze. Is there a way to fix this so I can use the memory I bou

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:00:59AM +, Rick wrote: > Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB > to 6. When I installed the memory every thing was fine until I went to > run level 5. At that point the screen turned to garbage and the system > froze. Is there a way to

[CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-07 Thread Rick
Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB to 6. When I installed the memory every thing was fine until I went to run level 5. At that point the screen turned to garbage and the system froze. Is there a way to fix this so I can use the memory I bought? Do I need a new di