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 you

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

RE: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM

2001-11-09 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Some machines cannot handle more than 512mb of memory, or run out of cache for more than 512 megs of RAM. You may want to try with one 512mb strip first, then work up from there. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of skinky |Sent:

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 | - swap

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

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 November 2001 16:11

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

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 MB in