Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271278AbTGWULg (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:11:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271284AbTGWUIz (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:08:55 -0400 Received: from bms.ne.client2.attbi.com ([24.62.163.168]:28631 "EHLO ns.briggsmedia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271278AbTGWUIZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:08:25 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Joe Briggs Organization: BMS To: paterley , Jason Subject: Re: AMD MP, SMP, Tyan 2466 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:03:43 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1058846559.8494.17.camel@big-blue.project-lace.org> <20030723081946.44d4fe10.paterley@DrunkenCodePoets.com> In-Reply-To: <20030723081946.44d4fe10.paterley@DrunkenCodePoets.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200307231603.43543.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2097 Lines: 47 Tyan publishes a list of tested memory chips for this board on their website. I tried the AOPEN ECC memory and it did not work. On Wednesday 23 July 2003 08:19 am, paterley wrote: > 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/ -- Joe Briggs Briggs Media Systems 105 Burnsen Ave. Manchester NH 03104 USA TEL/FAX 603 232 3115 www.briggsmedia.com - 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/