Greetings, all Topicans. Longtime STN user here who's has had the pleasure of knowing JohnL in his "past" life. :) My STN box is a Micronics-based 486/66 with two generic NE2000 NICs connecting a half-dozen internal machines (Unix, Linux, Windoze) to the Net via a Covad 384/384 SDSL line. Vanilla setup except for the manual config "ipautofw" commands allowing dialpad.com to work. Recently I added more 32mb more memory (got it free from a junked PC) to my STN box, for a total of 40mb. It's up and running fine, but I've got two questions: 1) Is this much memory really being used by STN? If I look at Mem Usage, I get "MemFree: 32456kb", with only 2468kb being used by buffers. Is there an upper limit to the amount of usable/useful memory can be thrown at STN? If so, how to tell it to do so (like to take more space for buffers, etc.)? 2) Now, during boot time, right before the "RAMDISK..compressed image found at block 0", I see: <i>Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips or a power saving mode enabled.</i> As I say, the machine is working fine, but the above does concern me. Thoughts and suggestions to explore/debug/eliminate the problem? thanks, David --- Sponsor's Message -------------------------------------- GUARANTEED APPROVAL MASTERCARD? All* applicants approved with NO up front cash or security deposit. 0% A.P.R. and REPORTS TO ALL 3 MAJOR CREDIT BUREAUS! This is the best credit card deal on the net. http://click.topica.com/aaaar6bz8Rp2bAfyICc/1112eCreditRepairAd2 ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Visit http://www.ShareTheNet.com for info about ShareTheNet Visit http://www.topica.com/lists/sharethenet for info about this list ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
