Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-10 Thread skinky
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 02:00, Tom Brinkman wrote: | It won't break. You could try to break it tho ;) IIRC, early on | in the kerenl config, there's an option called 'big' or 'high' memory | support. It's off by default in what I'm calling a regular kernel. If | you recompile the kernel with

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 10 November 2001 04:00 am, skinky wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 17:44, Tom Brinkman wrote: > | > | The regular kernel will work as always, it just won't see > | more'n about 900+mb of ram. > Well anyway, thats good news Tom, thanks. I'll put the two new > 512mb sticks in slots 2 &

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-10 Thread skinky
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 17:44, Tom Brinkman wrote: | On Friday 09 November 2001 06:34 pm, skinky wrote: | > On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:09, Tom Brinkman wrote: | | Regular' kernels will only address 'bout | | > | 900+ mb of ram. So if you want to use all that ram, you'll need | > | to install a -enter

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-10 Thread skinky
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:31, Dennis Myers wrote: | On Friday 09 November 2001 16:11, you wrote: | | > Other relevant bits are: Soltek SL-KAV75 mobo and Athlon TBird | > 1.0GHz CPU. | | If this is the same board as listed on the soltek site as a SL-75KAV | then as you look at the attached URL yo

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 09 November 2001 10:17 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: > Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > > Some machines cannot handle more than 512mb of memory, or run out > > of cache for more than 512 megs of RAM. > > Some motherboards handle less than that -- the TX-Pro II > motherboards I use can only handle 64 M

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 09 November 2001 06:34 pm, skinky wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:09, Tom Brinkman wrote: Regular' kernels will only address 'bout > | 900+ mb of ram. So if you want to use all that ram, you'll need > | to install a -enterprise kernel (it's on your CD's or you can get > | the latest from

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-09 Thread Dennis Myers
Once again this should have gone listwise. I can't pay attention. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 21:31:51 -0600 From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 09 Novem

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > Some machines cannot handle more than 512mb of memory, or run out of > cache for more than 512 megs of RAM. Some motherboards handle less than that -- the TX-Pro II motherboards I use can only handle 64 MB in each of two sockets for a maximum total of 128 MB (although I c

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-09 Thread skinky
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:09, Tom Brinkman wrote: | On Friday 09 November 2001 05:11 pm, skinky wrote: [snip] | > If I boot linux after doing the following, is the new hardware | > likely to be recognised? : | > | > - ensure harddrake and kudzu run on boot, | > - shut down the computer | > - s

RE: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-09 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:12 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM | | |Hi all | |I am about to upgrade the hw in my pc. I currently have: | |1 x 128MB PC133 SDRAM |crappy 1MB S3 PCI graphics card |AC97 onboard sound | |Changing the above with: | |2 x

[newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-09 Thread skinky
Hi all I am about to upgrade the hw in my pc. I currently have: 1 x 128MB PC133 SDRAM crappy 1MB S3 PCI graphics card AC97 onboard sound Changing the above with: 2 x 512MB PC133 SDRAM (not sure whether to leave the old RAM in also) nVidia GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP graphics card Soundblaster Liv