martin leisner wrote:
>
> Some guys a work want to use a 900 Mhz Athlon with 1.5 gig of ram for
> some chip design tools. We're running redhat 6.2 (2.2pl15).
>
> I never paid much attention to talk about such a powerful systems since
> I never used one until now ;-)
>
> When it had 3 256mbyte modules, I ran lmbench, and it paniced the
> machine (3 times running).
>
> We replaced the 256 mbyte ram with 512 mbyte modules (so the machine
> had 1.5 mbyte -- we had to trade with someone else).
>
> The bios seems to have a bug...it can't detect 512m modules (so it
> sees "768M".)
What chipset is on you motherboard?
The AMD 750 (Irongate) only supports 768M.
The Via KX/KT 133 may support mor, check their website.
Also check the board maker's site, just because
the chipset can handle more memory, the board
may not be built to do so. Like chipset says
4x256M = 1G, only has 3 slots, but
2x512M won't work so boaw has max of 768M.
-Thomas
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