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

Charles Cazabon (linux@discworld.dyndns.org)
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:58:40 -0600

Brien <admin@brien.com> wrote:
>
> 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)?

Putting multiple modules in puts a higher load on the address and data lines
supplying the sockets; apparently those two modules are too much of a load for
your motherboard. You didn't notice a problem in Windows because it doesn't
push the hardware quite as hard.

If your board supports registered (buffered) DIMMs, that would likely solve
your problem.

Charles

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