E4000 on FreeBSD 5.3

[Tan Heng Chai]

It happened previous when I just installed the new CPU boards.
Reseating the ram fixed it though, so its probably badly seated rams.

I ran the system with 6400MB no problems. But I tested with 7424MB and
it refused to boot, hung before it displayed the "avail memory"
section.


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:14:21 +0000, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:17:57AM +0800, Tan Heng Chai wrote:
> > As requested, dmesg for my E4000. Note that the ram isn't 6400MB as
> > apparently there was a ram test failure just as I rebooted earlier.
> > Will try to post another full one later.
> 
> That's pretty suspicious and makes me think that there are further RAM
> errors not being caught by the self-test.  Try swapping out the RAM to
> identify the bad subset.
> 
> I know that the E4500 runs with 5GB of RAM with no problems.
> 
> Kris
>