Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1032601AbXFIArl (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:47:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S968361AbXFIArd (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:47:33 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:42048 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968138AbXFIArc (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:47:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4669F8A1.1050205@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:47:29 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Lyon CC: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up References: <20070606143723.GF10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <46673135.30105@zytor.com> <46682FED.2080506@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 23 Andrew Lyon wrote: > > I have run memtest86+ for days at a time on both systems with no errors > at all. > > broken hardware i guess, i am not surprised about the abit board, ive > had nothing but trouble with abit motherboards and do not use them any > more, but the supermicro is a xeon server board and i was using > kingston ram, i wouldnt expect that to have issues. > > latest bios on both. > And have you verified that it's specced for the memory load you're putting on it? Not all platforms can use every slot with certain kinds of DIMMs, depending on chip and rank count. -hpa - 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/