On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:40, Ed Wilts wrote:
> This shouldn't a no-no as long as you force your speed to be 100 - PC133
> chips should run fine at 100. How is your bios set now? I'd force it
> to 100 and then run memtest86 and see what happens. You might even want
> to try memtest86 before yo
> Which chip did you pull to get everything working right? Was it the
> PC133 by any chance?
No, the PC133 is the one in there now.
PC133 - 256mb chip
PC100 - 128mb chip
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:50:22AM -0400, salvatore wrote:
> There are three settings in BIOS:
> 133
> 100
> By Spd
>
> 133 and 100 are self explanatory, but what's 'by spd'? That it'll attempt
> to read the speed of the individual chips?
> I did notice one of the chips is 133 and the other two a
>chips and would crash during the installation process - you might
>remember my posting a few months ago ;)
I joined the list this morning, but its good to know someone else had the
same thing happen as I did.
>I sorted mine by just lowering the speed the RAM was running in the
>BIOS. I had mine
Just a suggestion, but I had a similar problem when installing RH. The
very same RAM chips had been in the box for nearly a year and I'd not
had any corruption etc when using winXP. RH9 decided not to like the
chips and would crash during the installation process - you might
remember my posting a f
>the system. Bad ram, especially non error-correcting ram, can cause you
>all sorts of grief from random crashes to disk corruption. Slow you can
>live with - disk corruption you probably can't.
Perfect sense. Thanks.
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:26:49AM -0400, salvatore wrote:
> I narrowed down my install woes to a RAM chip in the system, removed it, and
> installed rh9 with no problems.
> With only 256mb, the system performance is less than desirable; since the
> POST sees all of the chips just fine, and the ins
Newbie posting.
RH 9 on a PIV 1.4 w/256mb RAM
I narrowed down my install woes to a RAM chip in the system, removed it, and
installed rh9 with no problems.
With only 256mb, the system performance is less than desirable; since the
POST sees all of the chips just fine, and the install is finished, is
