Re: Lombard hard freeze (update: mem>64MB)

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:53:52AM -0700, David A. Gatwood wrote:

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

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When I had only 64MB the system was stable!
I managed to compile GRASS (which is among the biggest free software
projects) and other things.

Plugging in a different 128MB and a different 64MB, both in the first
slot, made the system unstable each time.

So it worked with your original 64 megs, but it fails with a different 64
meg part and a 128 meg part?  

It was stalbe with my original 64 megs.
Putting additional RAM in made it unstable.
The symptom occurred with three differnent addition RAM simms.
128,128,64 megs.

I don't see how that can be anything but bad
hardware, either something wrong with the motherboard or a pair of bad
SIMM/DIMM parts or dirty contacts or incorrectly seated RAM.

The problem is that a simple RAM stress test under MacOS would certainly
reveal that. (If it is a simple hardware problem, like you suggested.)

But the RAM tests were passed in MacOS so far.
(I have another one running right now. It will take a bit.)

	Bernhard
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On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

quoted

quoted

When I had only 64MB the system was stable!
I managed to compile GRASS (which is among the biggest free software
projects) and other things.

Plugging in a different 128MB and a different 64MB, both in the first
slot, made the system unstable each time.

So it worked with your original 64 megs, but it fails with a different 64
meg part and a 128 meg part?

It was stalbe with my original 64 megs.
Putting additional RAM in made it unstable.

Oh, so that 64 megs was in addition to the original 64 megs.  Guess I
misread that.  So this problem only occurs on the Lombard?


David

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