Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:28:35 -0500 | From | "Nicholas J. Leon" <> | Subject | Re: EDO RAM |
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At 05:59 PM 11/13/96 -0600, Keith Rohrer wrote: >Derrik Pates wrote: >> Check your motherboard manual. I believe that some boards (not my Intel >> Zappa, though) may need DIP switches/jumpers changed to properly use EDO
>Not the ASUS T2P4 either. Do other operating systems work at all? Does >the bootup screen think the SIMMS are EDO? As I recall, the T2P4 bios >autodetects EDO, so it can't be that the RAM is feeding data too fast... >
Well, DOS worked and that's what bothered me. So I began thinking what the difference between DOS and Linux' memory management.
Now the conclusion I came to (that seemed intuitive) was that perhaps, maybe, yes? Linux allocates from the top down and DOS from bottom up. So I rebooted the machine with a "mem=8m" and sure enough, Linux runs on it now. Don't know if my original premise was true or not, but it led me to a solution (I think).
I guess I have 1 bad 8M simm (I have 2x8MB SIMMS). Or my cache is broken :) But I would like to believe it was 1 bad simm.... so new one on the way, thanx!
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