On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:55:45 +0200
"Mike D. Frenz"
Hello All,
on a TYAN K8W (S2885) with 8GB reg. ECC DDR2700 (8pcs. 1GB) Corsair cert. Modules (shipped by TYAN with Mainboard) "free -m" SuSE-8.2-Prof-x86-64-Beta9 gives only: (in MB)
total used free shared buffers cached 6986 235 6751 0 41 68
instead of expected ~7900MB
Any clues? Kernel-Options?
Memory problems on Tyan boards seem to be come a FAQ ... Enable the "IOMMU" option in the BIOS. If that does not help: You can check the e820 map that the kernel outputs at the beginning of boot.msg. If it contains 8GB as "RAM" then it may be a kernel problem. If not then the BIOS/hardware didn't recognize it. Most likely it is the BIOS/hardware. All the Tyan boards seem to be somewhat flakey in what memory they accept in which slot etc. Switch the DIMMs around or replace them. -Andi