On 2014-09-05 01:14 (GMT+0700) Constant Brouerius van Nidek composed:
My mainboard has place for two DDR1 memory sticks. I have two identical V-GeN 1GB sticks which should be the max for my mainboard.
With one stick in the first slot the computer runs okay. As soon as I insert the second stick in slot number two the booting of openSUSE 13.1, Tumbleweed ends with a kernel panic. Have extracted the text from the photo I made from the information.
-------------------------- Hardware name: P4i65GV/P4i65GV, BIOS P2.30
What brand and model machine/motherboard is that? When exactly (within a month) was it made? ...
The strange thing is that e.g. Puppy and even a newly installed Windows 7 on the computer do not have a problems with the 2GB memory and seem to work okay. Not a windows user so i have not tried it fully out but so far I saw no problems. Puppy 5.2 works as expected with an older kernel.
Is this a problem with openSUSE or is it caused by the kernel used? Have also tried a fresh install with kernel 3.11.6.4. No luck. With that kernel the machine instantly reboots without any information whats however.
Somebody an idea what I should do?
I would run memtest several hours, not just one pass, before deciding RAM is not the problem. If you're using the onboard video, RAM is shared between system and video. Check to make sure the mainboard BIOS installed is the latest available. If not, flashing might fix it. It could be your particular motherboard is manifesting signs of a widespread problem of the era when your motherboard was made, explained at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague It's just as important, if not more so, to find and replace bad caps in the power supply as the motherboard. The easier but more expensive option to replacing bad caps is replacing PS and/or motherboard. You could try a still newer kernel than the one in Tumbleweed, from kernel:head or kernel:stable, but it sounds to me more likely a hardware failure given only one OS fails and not others, and the probable age of your puter. If you have an empty slot for a video card, and an unused video card, you might make the problem go away combining them so that RAM would no longer be shared. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org