I could be very wrong, but I thought the proper thing was mem="128M".
Did you check the lilo docs?
Other then that, I"d like to say that there's probably nothing worse then bad RAM. It
very well may be bad - consider trying a new stick. Get PNY, Kensington or Corsair.
And do /not/ get ram with tin teeth - only gold. Many makers are starting to use tin
for cost efficiency, but it corrodes in about 2 years, and often corrodes the slot in
the mobo along with it.
JW
At 06:50 PM 10/13/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>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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