Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-14 Thread Cliff Wells
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:48, Edward Dekkers wrote: [Once again, reposting - I wonder if this is due to GPG sig attachement?] I don't know what it is with your mails Cliff, but they nearly always show up on my screen as attachments instead of plain vanilla e-mail, like everybody else's.

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-14 Thread Cliff Wells
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 22:57, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Nice message numnuts. It's blank. Tease me w/ a subject, then give me the blank screen. dick. I'd like to apologise to everyone on the list. My friend is paralyzed from the neck up and doesn't realize he replied to the list instead of

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS - Status

2003-01-14 Thread John B. Moore
Folks, Ok, here is where I'm at and it does not look to good.. On the Memory front I ran DocMemory over night (15+ hours) and it has passed 13 iterations of the test sequence. I had also run memtest86 and it did show some problems. I had called Cruial and they had recommended

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-14 Thread Kent Perrier
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:59, Cliff Wells wrote: This is a known problem with Outlook. It doesn't properly parse S/MIME messages. Usually when I post to public forums I do it without GPG signing as a courtesy to the Outlook users, but since this is a Linux forum I hadn't followed that rule.

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-14 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 11:44, Kent Perrier wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:59, Cliff Wells wrote: This is a known problem with Outlook. It doesn't properly parse S/MIME messages. Usually when I post to public forums I do it without GPG signing as a courtesy to the Outlook users, but

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS - Status

2003-01-14 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:18, John B. Moore wrote: [snip] Using mem=512 still sometimes causes a kernal panic during the INIT. I [snip] entering mem=512 and pressing enter I get Error 28: Selected item can not fit into memory [snip] I then removed half of the memory and tested with

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14 Jan 2003 07:59:06 -0800, Cliff Wells wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:48, Edward Dekkers wrote: [Once again, reposting - I wonder if this is due to GPG sig attachement?] I don't know what it is with your mails Cliff, but they nearly

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS - Status

2003-01-14 Thread John B. Moore
Correct... mem=512M ... (fingers getting behind brain...) Cliff Wells wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:18, John B. Moore wrote: [snip] Using mem=512 still sometimes causes a kernal panic during the INIT. I [snip] entering mem=512 and pressing enter I get Error 28: Selected

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS - Status

2003-01-14 Thread nate
John B. Moore said: Correct... mem=512M ... (fingers getting behind brain...) some system setups have a tendancy to eat up to 1MB of extra memory, on such systems the solution is to use mem=XXXM where XXX is 1MB less then what you have, so in your case mem=511M . I have encountered this with

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS - Status

2003-01-14 Thread John B. Moore
Nate, Thanks, that makes sense.. trouble is the Manual I have does not indicate the voltage for either the DIMM or the SIMMs.. I'll check the FIC website and see if there is more info on this.. I'll try the 511 suggestion tomorrow.. (got to earn some money first..G) John.. nate

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS - Status

2003-01-14 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 14:05, John B. Moore wrote: Thanks, that makes sense.. trouble is the Manual I have does not indicate the voltage for either the DIMM or the SIMMs.. I'll check the FIC website and see if there is more info on this.. That's what I love about manuals that come with

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS - Status

2003-01-14 Thread John B. Moore
I agree, so far I have found nothing about the voltage requirements for the SIMMs on the FIC website. I posted a tech support question about this yesterday, no reply, also posted a queston on their forums so far, no reply.. Maybe I need to go motherboard shopping...sigh John... Cliff

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS - Status

2003-01-14 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:00, John B. Moore wrote: I agree, so far I have found nothing about the voltage requirements for the SIMMs on the FIC website. I posted a tech support question about this yesterday, no reply, also posted a queston on their forums so far, no reply.. Maybe I

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-14 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 08:03, Cliff Wells wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 22:57, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Nice message numnuts. It's blank. Tease me w/ a subject, then give me the blank screen. dick. I'd like to apologise to everyone on the list. My friend is paralyzed from the neck up

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS - Status

2003-01-14 Thread John B. Moore
Oh, I did very briefly... not much was available... Cliff Wells wrote: You might just try googling for it, you might find other people who have run into the same problem with that model of mobo. I'd do it for you but I'm off to a Python SIG =) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread John B. Moore
Greetings, I need to run this by you folks and see if there are any alternatives/issues that might get this to work. (using the very latest kernal) I have a VA-502 revA1 motherboard that has both DIMM slots and SIMM slots. It is currently runing on the DIMM with two 64k DIMMS. Everything

RE: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread Daily, Shane, CTR
Have you tried appending MEM=512M to the boot loader? -Original Message- From: John B. Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Memory - 512 SIMMS Greetings, I need to run this by you folks and see if there are any

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread John B. Moore
13, 2003 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Memory - 512 SIMMS Greetings, I need to run this by you folks and see if there are any alternatives/issues that might get this to work. (using the very latest kernal) I have a VA-502 revA1 motherboard that has both DIMM slots and SIMM slots

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread Cliff Wells
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 10:27, John B. Moore wrote: Greetings, I need to run this by you folks and see if there are any alternatives/issues that might get this to work. (using the very latest kernal) I have a VA-502 revA1 motherboard that has both DIMM slots and SIMM slots --

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread John B. Moore
Cliff Wells wrote: I take it you mean 64MB DIMMS wink. Of course, my bad... Why not use 2 256MB DIMMS? Cheaper, faster and easier to find. According to my motherboard doc, 64 is the largest DIMM allowed. I've had a couple of mobos that supported both SIMMS and DIMMS. The DIMMS always

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread John B. Moore
append ro root=LABEL=/ MEM=512M I think that's correct ? Shane -Original Message- From: John B. Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS Shane, No.. Frankly I'm not that familiar with how to do

RE: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread Daily, Shane, CTR
Put a space before MEM=512M -Original Message- From: John B. Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS Shane, Thanks,, Unfortunately I must be doing something wrong I'm using GRUB I

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread John B. Moore
, January 13, 2003 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS Shane, Thanks,, Unfortunately I must be doing something wrong I'm using GRUB I believe and what I got in response during the boot was mkrootdev: label: /MEM=512M not found ...and then a kernal panic

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:27:15AM -0800, John B. Moore wrote: Greetings, I need to run this by you folks and see if there are any alternatives/issues that might get this to work. (using the very latest kernal) I have a VA-502 revA1 motherboard that has both DIMM slots and SIMM

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread John B. Moore
Kevin, Thanks for that info.. I'll followup on this ideas as soon as I finish the memory tests... John... Kevin MacNeil wrote: What chipset does this mainboard have? My wife has a VA-503+ (also with dimm and simm slots) with 1mb onboard cache and an mvp3 chipset, and it can't cache

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread Edward Dekkers
[Once again, reposting - I wonder if this is due to GPG sig attachement?] I don't know what it is with your mails Cliff, but they nearly always show up on my screen as attachments instead of plain vanilla e-mail, like everybody else's. Mind you, I'm using LookOut here at work so the problem

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:14:15PM -0800, John B. Moore wrote: Cliff Wells wrote: I take it you mean 64MB DIMMS wink. Of course, my bad... Why not use 2 256MB DIMMS? Cheaper, faster and easier to find. According to my motherboard doc, 64 is the largest DIMM allowed. I've had a couple of

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread John B. Moore
Fred, Thanks for the thoughts... I'll investigate.. I have run memtest and MemoryDoc (or is it DocMemory??) the memtest86 did appear to report a problem in the test #6, I then called Crucial and they ask me to run the DocMemory tester.. The quick test passed, I'm running the BurnIn all

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Nice message numnuts. It's blank. Tease me w/ a subject, then give me the blank screen. dick. -- VB programmers ask why no one takes them seriously, it's somewhat akin to a McDonalds manager asking employees why they don't take their 'career' seriously. signature.asc Description: This is