On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:01:14 -0700, Scott Long wrote:
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
None of these problems occur when I use 4 GB memory. About the only strangeness, which seems to come from the BIOS, is that it recognizes only 3.5 GB. If I put all DIMMS in, it recognizes the full 8 GB memory.
I had 4 bad out of 12 tested where the DIMMs were Crucial PC2700 2GB Reg. ECC DIMMs.
OK, this makes sense. It might also explain why the 4 GB configuration only recognizes 3.5 GB.
No, and I'm going to make this an FAQ and post it in a very obvious place, since 4+ GB is so easy to get and people don't seem to understand the PC architecture very well.
That's not easy to understand when it's barely documented. Thanks for the info: it helps a lot.
This may still be a hint, though: that memory hole doesn't show up during a boot with 8 GB RAM. How come? Is the system trying to map RAM over the PCI hole?
It looks as if I should get a verbose boot listing with 8 GB. It'll be a couple of hours before I find time to reboot this machine. In the meantime, there's a verbose boot with 4 GB at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Images/20050331/obelix-dmesg. I'm told it shows a number of strange things, including incorrect reporting of on-chip cache sizes.
The SMAP will show the hole. It's well documented in most PC archtitecure books.
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