Re: Kernel panics on new machine

2007-10-17 Thread Rob Klingsten
Yes, I have the DIMMs in banks 1 and 2 out of 4 and I've removed and reseated them; I have swapped out the SATA cable, there are no PCI or PCI Express cards (system is headless.) And it looks like it was just that easy; I pulled one DIMM and ran the system on a single 512, problem gone; I wrot

Re: Kernel panics on new machine

2007-10-14 Thread Rob Klingsten
Sometimes dimms just need to be re-seated. Have you tried to put the stick back in and confirm that your problems come back? I put the other one back in, and within minutes of coming up and trying my dd, I got multiple 'oops' ... thanks again for the help -- Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Kernel panics on new machine

2007-10-14 Thread Rob Klingsten
gone; I wrote out 3 separate 100gb files without incident. It makes no sense to me as the RAM was fine in the other system, I never had problems. Oh well, guess I'm getting new RAM. thanks, sorry to trouble the list with such a trivial thing. Rob Rob Klingsten wrote: Hi folks, I

Kernel panics on new machine

2007-10-14 Thread Rob Klingsten
Hi folks, I am over my head here with kernel panics... I've got a shiny new system: Tyan S2865 (nforce 4 ultra), AMD Athlon x2 3800+, a single SATA-2 drive and 1gb of DDR400 RAM. The board and CPU are brand new, the drive and RAM came from a desktop machine which I had no problems with so