[SOLVED] Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/02/14 12:54 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: On 12/02/2014 11:26, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/02/14 07:40 AM, Roberto Scattini wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale mailto:garyd...@torfree.net>> wrote: Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+ shows 8G working

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On 12/02/2014 11:26, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/02/14 07:40 AM, Roberto Scattini wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale mailto:garyd...@torfree.net>> wrote: Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+ shows 8G working when I run it against the 2x4G and the 1x

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/02/14 07:40 AM, Roberto Scattini wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale > wrote: Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+ shows 8G working when I run it against the 2x4G and the 1x8G. My system runs fine, except f

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-12 Thread Roberto Scattini
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > >> Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+ shows 8G > working when I run it against the 2x4G and the 1x8G. My system runs fine, > except for the thrashing, with 8G. It's one application that causes the > thrashing and Free

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/02/14 12:09 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/11/2014 06:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Your suggestion

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/11/2014 06:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Your suggestion that it is the 8G + 1x4G which is being re

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2014 10:40 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: ... > 1. Contact Gigabyte support > 2. Buy another identical 8GB DIMM, or exchange this one for two 4s Should have mentioned this sooner. Gary have you flashed the BIOS to the latest rev? As I stated previously, if POST reports 16GB but the e820 map

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/11/2014 10:13 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 10:03 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/11/2014 9:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/11/2014 10:03 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/11/2014 9:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Your suggestio

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/11/2014 9:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Your suggestion that it is the 8G + 1x4G which is being reco

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Your suggestion that it is the 8G + 1x4G which is being recognized Not quite what I was trying to suggest

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Your suggestion that it is the 8G + 1x4G which is being recognized Not quite what I was trying to suggest. I was oversimplifying significantly. A

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >> [...] >> Your suggestion that it is the 8G + 1x4G which is being recognized > > Not quite what I was trying to suggest. I was oversimplifying significantly. And, now that I've been out for a

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > [...] > Sorry, but it still makes very little sense. When I turn off interleaving, > the BIOS should try to access all the memory 32bits at a time. This would, > one should expect, allow the memory to be accessed in full. Okay, you understand mo

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread doug
On 02/10/2014 11:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 10:00 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: [...] Have you run memtest yet? Yes. After the other comments, I gave it a try. It also only sees 12G. I find this c

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/14 11:40 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/10/2014 4:28 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 03:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/10/2014 2:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote:

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/14 10:00 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: [...] Have you run memtest yet? Yes. After the other comments, I gave it a try. It also only sees 12G. I find this confusing in that the board apparently work

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2014 4:28 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 10/02/14 03:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 2/10/2014 2:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >>> On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: >> On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, S

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: >> >> [...] >> Have you run memtest yet? >> > Yes. After the other comments, I gave it a try. It also only sees 12G. I > find this confusing in that the board apparently works with a mixture of > inter

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2014 2:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: >> On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> On Sat, 08 Feb 201

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/10/2014 03:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 G

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Jessie on an

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/9/2014 7:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: >>> On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 >>> Gary Dale wrote: >>> I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DD

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but s

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the programs I use were causing

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 > Gary Dale wrote: > >> I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 >> processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the programs I >> use were causing excessive thrashing. I added a

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 > processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the programs I > use were causing excessive thrashing. I added a 1x8G DDR3 stick (got > a good price on it, much cheap

more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-08 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the programs I use were causing excessive thrashing. I added a 1x8G DDR3 stick (got a good price on it, much cheaper than adding 2x4G) which resolved the thrashing problem.