I have a machine running SuSE 8.2, when I did the install it had 512 mbs of ram. But the prof whose computer it is wants 3 gigs of ram, so I purchased that. But I'm running into problems now. First of all, when I stuck all 3 gigs in there it cam up with an error after it got past the grub screen, it would boot to failsafe but thats it. So I tried it with 2 gigs, then it would boot, but for some reason it would lock up usually once a day, it wouldn't respond to anything, no 3 finger salute or anything. Is there something that I have to change in order for it to accept this new ram? btw the bios correctly recognized the ram, and the ram works in a windoze machine so I don't think thats the problem. The motherboard is an Asus a7n8x (non-delux).
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 15:46, Nate Mayotte wrote: > I have a machine running SuSE 8.2, when I did the install > it had 512 mbs of ram. But the prof whose computer it is > wants 3 gigs of ram, so I purchased that. But I'm running > into problems now. First of all, when I stuck all 3 gigs > in there it cam up with an error after it got past the > grub screen, it would boot to failsafe but thats it. So I > tried it with 2 gigs, then it would boot, but for some > reason it would lock up usually once a day, it wouldn't > respond to anything, no 3 finger salute or anything. Is > there something that I have to change in order for it to > accept this new ram? btw the bios correctly recognized > the ram, and the ram works in a windoze machine so I don't > think thats the problem. The motherboard is an Asus a7n8x > (non-delux). I don't want to say "have to", but it is a great idea to have as much swap as memory. Well, actually, I do want to say "have to", but I am afraid of being shouted down. I had this problem when I first started with Linux, and adding more swap fixed it. It appears from the man page that you need to provide a partition (unlike UNIX where you can specify a file for the second swap "device"). I think it is still good to have the swap partition broken up. This would not be an issue with Windoze, as it usurps this decision (or at least hides it on an obscure dialog). mg
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 08:30 PM, Mike Grello wrote:
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 15:46, Nate Mayotte wrote: > I have a machine running SuSE 8.2, when I did the install > it had 512 mbs of ram. But the prof whose computer it is > wants 3 gigs of ram, so I purchased that. But I'm running > into problems now. First of all, when I stuck all 3 gigs > in there it cam up with an error after it got past the > grub screen, it would boot to failsafe but thats it. So I > tried it with 2 gigs, then it would boot, but for some > reason it would lock up usually once a day, it wouldn't > respond to anything, no 3 finger salute or anything. Is > there something that I have to change in order for it to > accept this new ram? btw the bios correctly recognized > the ram, and the ram works in a windoze machine so I don't > think thats the problem. The motherboard is an Asus a7n8x > (non-delux).
I don't want to say "have to", but it is a great idea to have as much swap as memory. Well, actually, I do want to say "have to", but I am afraid of being shouted down. I had this problem when I first started with Linux, and adding more swap fixed it. It appears from the man page that you need to provide a partition (unlike UNIX where you can specify a file for the second swap "device"). I think it is still good to have the swap partition broken up. This would not be an issue with Windoze, as it usurps this decision (or at least hides it on an obscure dialog).
mg
Have you tried a memory test? There is one on the first suse disk when you boot from the cd. Does a excellent job of testing ram. I have eliminated many problems with that test. Of course, I don't have 3 gigs, just test a lot of ram. Any time I install new ram in a system and it gives me problems that is the first thing I do. Who is the manufacturer? will
For lots of RAM. Esp. over 512MB sticks you want to use registered RAM. SuSE should give you the 4GB kernel by default so there are no Linux kernel issues. Do a uname -a and see if the kernel version has a -4GB on the end. About swap space...with that much ram you CERTAINLY don't need that much swap space. I would say even 512mb is too much. Try 384mb of swap space. On Tuesday 26 August 2003 08:30 pm, Mike Grello wrote:
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 15:46, Nate Mayotte wrote: > I have a machine running SuSE 8.2, when I did the install > it had 512 mbs of ram. But the prof whose computer it is > wants 3 gigs of ram, so I purchased that. But I'm running > into problems now. First of all, when I stuck all 3 gigs > in there it cam up with an error after it got past the > grub screen, it would boot to failsafe but thats it. So I > tried it with 2 gigs, then it would boot, but for some > reason it would lock up usually once a day, it wouldn't > respond to anything, no 3 finger salute or anything. Is > there something that I have to change in order for it to > accept this new ram? btw the bios correctly recognized > the ram, and the ram works in a windoze machine so I don't > think thats the problem. The motherboard is an Asus a7n8x > (non-delux).
I don't want to say "have to", but it is a great idea to have as much swap as memory. Well, actually, I do want to say "have to", but I am afraid of being shouted down. I had this problem when I first started with Linux, and adding more swap fixed it. It appears from the man page that you need to provide a partition (unlike UNIX where you can specify a file for the second swap "device"). I think it is still good to have the swap partition broken up. This would not be an issue with Windoze, as it usurps this decision (or at least hides it on an obscure dialog).
mg
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