Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270230AbTGWMR7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:17:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270240AbTGWMR7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:17:59 -0400 Received: from [163.118.102.59] ([163.118.102.59]:29071 "EHLO mail.drunkencodepoets.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270230AbTGWMR6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:17:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:19:46 -0400 From: paterley To: Jason Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AMD MP, SMP, Tyan 2466 Message-Id: <20030723081946.44d4fe10.paterley@DrunkenCodePoets.com> In-Reply-To: <1058846559.8494.17.camel@big-blue.project-lace.org> References: <1058846559.8494.17.camel@big-blue.project-lace.org> Organization: DrunkenCodePoets.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1498 Lines: 30 On 22 Jul 2003 00:02:39 -0400 Jason wrote: > Hello, > > I'm coming into this conversation a bit late, so I might be missing > something and appologize if I am. But I have the same board and > experienced some intersting weirdness with PC2100 NON ECC chips on this > board as well. I was using High performance ram from Mushkin at the > time. Now here's the interesting part, according to some small print in > the manual, non ecc ram works up to 1.5Gb. Knowing this, I bought 1Gb > of it, 2 512MB sticks. I put them both in, and the board only sees > 512Mb. So I talk to Mushkin about it, apparently they've done some > testing with this board. Non ECC memory is EXTREMELY flakey in this > board. So flakey that Tyan, unofficially mind you, recommened to them > that they not suggest to their customers to put non ecc memory in this > board. So I got 1Gb of ECC Registered memory, and have yet to have a > problem with it. Actually, your 2 dimm problem could have (probably) been solved by rearranging your dimms. I have the 2462ung (thunder k7) and the only way I could get 512 megs (give me a break I'm a porr college student) was to put one in slot 1 and one in slot 3 (numbering starting at 0). Pat Erley-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/