Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:48:35 -0600 (CST) | From | Jason Burrell <> | Subject | Re: EDO Memory Blues |
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On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> > Nicholas J. Leon wrote: > > > I'm hoping that someone could clear something up for me. It is in > > regards to memory. If you will remember, about 1 week ago I posted a > > comment about my new ASUS and it's EDO ram that wouldn't work unless I > > cut it in half with a mem=8m boot parameter. It was that letter that > > sparked the thread on NMI/ECC. > > My 6x86 P150+ machine with (2) 16MB EDO SIMMs began exhibiting exactly > the same symptoms - this is scary. I didn't even know anything was > wrong until noticing 'top' reporting a low (read: factor of 0.5) figure > for total memory. About 4 out of 5 times, Linux would think there was > only a total of 16M installed. If I forced its hand with a boot-time > commandline setting, things would almost work; but I'd see instant > Signal 11 faults when running GCC. > > Replacing both modules with 16MB Fast-page (parity) SIMMs from another > box cured the problem completely.
I have a P133 with a Premio motherboard and 32MB (two 16MB SIMMS) EDO installed on the board. I've had no problems.
I wonder if there's some kind of incompatability between your motherboards and Linux? My motherboard mentions that I have "single side, EDO" RAM in my system, so it apparently detects that it's EDO RAM.
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