The number at the bottom of the screen when you first boot the system can be
used to identify your mb. There is a site on the net with the listing of
all the numbers. motherboard.org? someone else have the link?
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> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 6:50 PM
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> Subject: odd memory access problem
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>
>
> Hopefully someone here has seen something like the problem
> I'm having.
>
> In a moment of weakness my employer bought a cheapo 450MHz PIII
> system ( A Fry's special for those that might know what that means).
> It ran NT until this week when I wiped it and installed Linux.
>
> Unfortunately Linux can see only 64 of the 128Megs of memory. I've
> tried:
>
> 1) variations of append = "mem=128M" in lilo.conf to no effect.
> 2) linux mem=128M at the LILO prompt. kernel panic on boot.
> 3) switch the DIMM from slot to slot. also no different.
> 4) try a known to be good DIMM from another system with 1-3 above.
> no difference.
> 5) twiddling BIOS settings. also no effect.
>
> I can't find any marking on the motherboard to identify the maker.
> ( I wouldn't admit to making it either) It has a SiS chipset of
> some sort, but nothing else identifiable.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> TIA,
> ~Rob
>
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