David Smith wrote:
Another possibility that I have seen is a combination of your explanations. I had a motherboard a few years ago that would run rock steady with 2 of its 3 DIMM slots populated, but when I populated all 3 DIMM slots the computer would have all sorts of stability problems. So I would suggest try running with only 3 of the 4 DIMM slots populated and see if that solves the problem. I know this has been a problem with quite a few motherboards, although it seems that as of late manufactures are being more conscious in designing motherboards that perform as they should.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?
Chris Strieby
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