Re: System lockup problem with 7G of memory and PAE kernel - FC7

Re: System lockup problem with 7G of memory and PAE kernel - FC7

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > Can you try with 6G of memory? I've not known many MB's or BIOS to
> > work well with odd numbers. :-)

> While I can see some value in trying a different amount, I'd be
> surprised at "7 being an odd number," being the issue. It's not going
> to be exactly 7,000,000,000, it'll be a rounded figure.

It is most likely due to a mismatch of memory sticks. Most motherboards seem to have particular requirements about filling the memory slots with memory. And you must have a 'balanced' setup with matched amounts in the lower numbered slots.

DDR2 is even worse. I don't think you can do DDR2 with an odd number of memory sticks. Which leads to the question of how did you get 7Gig of RAM. I didn't think that 4Gig ram modules were available yet, which imply you have 3 times 2G plus 1G in modules. And the MB does not like the fact that you have 2G in slot 3 and 1G in slot 4.

Try with 6G (3x2) and 5 (2x2+1)...5G *may* work since there would be nothing in slot 4 to cause a problem.


Geoff


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