mb recommendation
Francois Tigeot
ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Tue Apr 25 20:09:59 UTC 2006
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:12:15PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 April 2006 11:30, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:07:27AM -0300, JoaoBR wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 25 April 2006 09:00, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> > > > Asus A8V-E-SE
> > >
> > > crashes under which condition?
> >
> > 4 GB of memory (4x1GB Kingston ECC) and the option to remap memory > 4GB
> > set to on in the BIOS.
>
> You should try without the memory remap option
Without it, only 3GB of RAM are usable.
> On other boards I know this options make the kernel crash, seems that some
> drivers are going to be allocated over 4GB and then they are not accessible
Every OS I tested was an amd64 one. Memory adresses > 4GB are not an
issue with them.
Besides, all other components (software and hardware) worked fine with
Supermicro and Tyan mainboards, so clearly the Asus A8V-E-SE is at fault
here.
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Francois Tigeot
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