ram question

[awesome-dave1 at juno.com]

Hi,
	Only guess i could make is the various ram chip speeds is confusing the
system.
Dave.


On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:22:30 -0600 Gregory Nowak
<greg at romuald.net.eu.org> writes:
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> This is a standard motherboard, it's an Abit BE6-II.
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> Greg
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:38:52PM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:54:51PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > > I just installed a 256M ram chip in my server. This gives me 
> 256M of
> > > ram in bank1, 128M in bank2, and 128M ram in bank 3, which 
> should
> > > compute to a total of 512M of ram.
> > > However, in my dmesg output, I get:
> > > 383MB LOWMEM available.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is this a server board or a standard motherboard.  My Intel
> > server board requires matched pairs of sdram installed in
> > banks 1/2 3/4 and 5/6 respectively as it uses interleaving. 
> > If the option exists in the bios, you can try turning off
> > memory interleaving.  Even better, try moving the 256mb
> > chip into bank 3 and match the 2 128mb chips into banks 1
> > and 2.
> > 
> > Hth,
> > Shane
> > 
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