Re: odd memory access problem [solved]

2000-10-21 Thread wyrd
Uncle Meat wrote: > > Another possibility is that the video memory is taken from the ram (had one > once that did that) and it's leaving a hole in memory. Turned out to be one of those shared memory video cards. reduce my mem=... statement by the appropriate amount did the trick. Belated thank

Re: odd memory access problem

2000-10-14 Thread wyrd
Thanks to all who replied, you've given me a couple ideas to try. Sorry if I don't quote you all here, but you know who you are. > On 14-Oct-2000 Jonathan Wilson spoke something to the effect: > > I could be very wrong, but I thought the proper thing was mem="128M". > > > > Did you check the lil

Re: odd memory access problem

2000-10-13 Thread Uncle Meat
On 14-Oct-2000 Jonathan Wilson spoke something to the effect: > 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 tryi

Re: odd memory access problem

2000-10-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > 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. Ge

Re: odd memory access problem

2000-10-13 Thread Jonathan Wilson
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

RE: odd memory access problem

2000-10-13 Thread Dan Browning
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? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]