Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965089AbVI0VBV (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:01:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965086AbVI0VBU (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:01:20 -0400 Received: from dtp.xs4all.nl ([80.126.206.180]:45145 "HELO abra2.bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965084AbVI0VBS (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:01:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:01:14 +0200 From: Erik Mouw To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: Grzegorz Kulewski , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13 Message-ID: <20050927210113.GA26967@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <20050927111038.GA22172@ime.usp.br> <204F8530-3DAD-4B20-AC24-2CBA776CC2C2@ime.usp.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Harddisk-recovery.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 911 Lines: 21 On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:42:44PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Version B here. It first had only 128MB, worked fine, I added 256MB, > system become unstable, memtest86 found "bad memory" around the last > megabytes. Then I bought 512MB, hoping to use it with 256MB - no way. > Every module alone works, but not together. But in my case memtest86 did > find errors. Try removing the 256MB module?... FWIW, some VIA based chipsets only take a single DDR400 module, not two. The manuals are a bit vague about it. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - 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/