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DateThu, 17 Apr 2003 01:51:55 +0900
FromBruce Harada <>
SubjectRe: my dual channel DDR 400 RAM won't work on any linux distro
On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:59:07 -0400
"Brien" <admin@brien.com> wrote:

> (I posted this on some forums and they recommended that I try here)
> > Hi,> > I have a Gigabyte SINXP1394 motherboard, and 2 Kingston 512 MB DDR 400 (CL
> 2.5) RAM modules installed. Whenever I try to install any Linux
> distribution, I always get a black screen after the kernel loads, when I
> have dual channel enabled; If I take out 1 of the RAM modules (either one),
> everything works as it should -- it's not a bad module (works perfectly
> under Windows by the way).

A couple of things to try:
 - Put in both sticks, try booting from a distribution and pass the
   bootloader "mem=960M" as a parameter at the prompt.
 - Just to make sure it's not a memory problem, grab memtest86
   (http://www.memtest86.com/) and try running it for a few hours.
   Unlikely, but you never know.
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