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
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of wyrd > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 6:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: odd memory access problem > > > > Hopefully someone here has seen something like the problem > I'm having. > > In a moment of weakness my employer bought a c

odd memory access problem

2000-10-13 Thread wyrd
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