Re: kernel 2.6 and memtester

2004-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.04.12.1611 +0200]: > Try turning APIC off. It's in the archives - nForce chipsets have > issues with APIC. Per your request, I compiled a new kernel without APIC/IOAPIC (realising only afterwards that I could have used kernel parameters...). H

Re: kernel 2.6 and memtester

2004-04-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:19:21PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I have a weird problem here: A machine with an XP 2200 downgraded to > 1800 MHz, 256 Mb RAM and an nForce2 chipset. 512Mb swapspace exist. Try turning APIC off. It's in the archives - nForce chipsets have issues with APIC. A --

kernel 2.6 and memtester

2004-04-11 Thread martin f krafft
I have a weird problem here: A machine with an XP 2200 downgraded to 1800 MHz, 256 Mb RAM and an nForce2 chipset. 512Mb swapspace exist. I tried the 2.6.5-1-k7 and the 2.4.25-1-k7 kernels. When I boot the former and run `memtest all`, it will try to allocate 768Mb of RAM and successively go down u