On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 14:07, L. Mark Stone wrote:
I just tried adding a second 512MB stick 'o RAM to my SuSE 9.0 system, and got a kernel oops upon rebooting.
At first I thought it might be bad RAM (even though both sticks are identical part numbers from Crucial), so I took out the known good working stick and replaced it with the new stick. System booted fine with 512MB as before. OK, so new RAM stick is good.
There is an SKB article about 8.2 oopsing when additional RAM >= 1GB is added to a working system. The solution was to add "mem=880M" to the boot line. This had no effect for me.
The system BIOS sees the extra RAM just fine (it's an Asus A7V133 motherboard that fully supports up to 1.5GB of RAM), and--sorry to say--the system dual boots Windows 2000 with the 1GB RAM installed just fine.
I suspect I am simply ignorant of the proper procedure for adding RAM, but heavy Googling and reading of the Admin Guide and the How-Tos has yielded nothing.
Anyone seen anything like this before?
Thanks! Mark
Have you tried running the memory test (memtest86)? Should be on the boot menu otherwise have a look here http://www.memtest86.com/ This will really test your RAM, takes quite a long time to run. It might be a problem with mismatched RAM sticks. Linux is rather hard on RAM when compared with windows. Linux uses all RAM available to the computer, whereas Windows only uses it as needed. I bet if you load up Windows with memory heavy apps it will fall over. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------