I've previously posted this in the linux desktop forum, but could not find an answer. Please help if you can.
I've added 1G of RAM and now my system is unstable. I have a Soyo Dragon Plus! with three DIMM slots capable of supporting up to 3G according to the manual. I have three DIMMs equallying 1G -- 1 x 512, and 2 x 256. They are all PC2100. Any combination of two DIMMs in any combination of slots works without problem... but adding the third one causes memory errors. Therefore, I conclude that it is not a hardware problem. I've run docmem (a FreeDOS-based bootdisk memory checker), and it passes all three DIMMs with no problem. Therefore, I conclude that it is a linux problem. I've compiled the 2.4.20 kernel with high mem = 4G so that it recognizes more than 960M, and it does recognize it in dmesg and top. However, I still get segmetation faults with stack traces randomly in all software.
Has anyone installed more than 960M of memory and had memory errors as a result? Any idea what the problem is?
Sincerely,
Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.
I've added 1G of RAM and now my system is unstable. I have a Soyo Dragon Plus! with three DIMM slots capable of supporting up to 3G according to the manual. I have three DIMMs equallying 1G -- 1 x 512, and 2 x 256. They are all PC2100. Any combination of two DIMMs in any combination of slots works without problem... but adding the third one causes memory errors. Therefore, I conclude that it is not a hardware problem. I've run docmem (a FreeDOS-based bootdisk memory checker), and it passes all three DIMMs with no problem. Therefore, I conclude that it is a linux problem. I've compiled the 2.4.20 kernel with high mem = 4G so that it recognizes more than 960M, and it does recognize it in dmesg and top. However, I still get segmetation faults with stack traces randomly in all software.
Has anyone installed more than 960M of memory and had memory errors as a result? Any idea what the problem is?
Sincerely,
Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.