Re: my dual channel DDR 400 RAM won't work on any linux distro

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello Brian ,  Try this then run memtest86 against each mem stick
	seperately .  It sounds as if you tried both at the same time ?
		Hth ,  JimL

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Brien wrote:
> Hi again,
> (Thanks for replying, John.)
> I ran Memtest86, and there're 290 errors that showed up from test 7. But the
> thing that I don't understand is, if I use either of the RAM modules alone,
> Linux loads and runs perfectly for as long as I've tried; Could it possibly
> be a problem with something besides the RAM (e.g. motherboard, CPU)? And I
> still don't know if my RAM setup is even supported by Linux -- I'm guessing
> that it is though (?).

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Bradford" <[e-mail]>
> To: "Brien" <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 11:11 AM
> Subject: Re: my dual channel DDR 400 RAM won't work on any linux distro
> > > I have a Gigabyte SINXP1394 motherboard, and 2 Kingston 512 MB DDR 400
> (CL
> > > 2.5) RAM modules installed. Whenever I try to install any Linux
> > > distribution, I always get a black screen after the kernel loads
> > Can you run Memtest86 on it for an hour or two, and confirm that there
> > is nothing wrong with the memory?  Sometimes really obscure faults
> > happen to get triggered with Linux, even if the machine appears to
> > work with other operating systems.
> > (By the way, good choice getting a Gigabyte board, I always use them,
> > and never have problems with them).
> > John.
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