I'd start by adding one more DIMM and seeing what happens. Certainly would test option 3. If all goes well, add a third.
I have had little experience with motherboards, but when I filled the third slot on my motherboard with a 128 chip, all of a sudden the PCI slot that my sound card was in would not work (in Linux and Windows) and I had to change the sound card to a different slot. Hardware is weird. On Saturday 01 February 2003 02:17 pm, David Smith asked of the Jedi Counsel: > On Thursday, I pulled the 4 128Mb DIMMs out of Phantom and replaced them > with a single, known working, 128Mb DIMM. We haven't had a kernel Oops or > a crash in more than a day, which is a record for the new box. I took the > potentially bad RAM and ran each DIMM individually through memtest86 v3.0 > on my home machine. All 4 of the DIMMs ran through all tests without a > single error, some of them 20+ times. This seems pretty strange because > when I pulled the old RAM, Phantom started to behave like a saint. This > /would/ indicate that the old RAM was bad, wouldn't it? Could the RAM be > bad and memtest86 not recognize it? Seems unlikely to me. Does anyone know > of any way to test the RAM further? The only things I can think of to > explain this peculiar situation are: > > 1. one of the DIMM slots on the motherboard must be bad or > 2. our kernel (2.4.20, Debian testing) can't handle 4 DIMMs totalling > 512Mb or > 3. the motherboard wasn't actually designed for that much memory > > Option 2 is a stretch. I can see options 1 or 3 (or both) being a likely > cuplprit. What are your thoughts? How should we proceed to minimize > down-time and find the cause of the problem? > > --Dave > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Jacob Albretsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knine.net/ "Linux long and prosper." ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
