Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Dec 1996 05:01:51 -0500 | From | John Wier <> | Subject | Re: Memory hole at 15M |
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Mauro, If you get a reply to your question please pass it on to me. I just upgraded to what sounds like the same setup and I have problems starting X. The machine just freezes. I got around the kernel only seeing 16M by passing a mem=32M param to loadlin.
Intel Triton II HX 512K - Frontier motherboard Intel 133Mhz 32M EDO Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 PCI video card using XF86_S3V server.
Thanks, John
Mauro Condarelli wrote: > > Hi there ! > First of all I send my best wishes for Merry Christmas and Happy New > Year to everybody. > > Then we get to business :) :) > > I recently upgraded my PC (Pentium 133, Triton MB, S3-Trio64V+) from > 16MB Ram to 32MB. > I'm unable to make it work anymore (sort of). > > As soon as the memory usage goes over ~16M i get all sorts of errors > (OOPS, aiee, ...). > This is quite repeatable. > > The Ram seems OK (i can switch the two banks and they work the same). > > The motherboard (cache, controllers) have been changed with a similar > one with no change in behaviour (so i assume it's working). > I'm testing now with Motherboard and VGA card only (to be sure no > other spurious problem is confusing the issue). > > Both Win95 and WinNT4.0 seem to have no problems. > > I seem to recall that certain peripherals (VGA??) can access some of > the onboard RAM using a "window" at 16M. > I'm unable to find any reference to this. > Can someone send me pointers? > I have a BIOS (AWARD) option which reads "Memory hole at 16M-16M"; > If i enable this all the problems go away, but i suspect this is only > because Linux is forced to belive i have only 15M Ram. > > I would really like to have some detailed information on this and > some other rather esoteric chipset options (Delayed Transaction, Peer > Concurrency, ...). Can someone point me to the relevant documentation > (better if available on-line)? > > Of course I would also want to solve my problem and use all the > memory i bought, so if someone can suggest any test i could make to > find out what's wrong, please do!! > > Thanks in advance and > Happy Holydays!!! > > Mauro
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