Re: [Nolug] ram issues?

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:08:17 -0500
<rbstrickland@cox.net> wrote:

> Gateways are notorious for only being picky about memory - this may be an
> issue of your ram being incompatible with your motherboard. I dunno, maybe
> the BIOS recognizes it but the rest of your system doesn't. Does Windows
> recognize your memory properly?>

I'll second that, they almost exclusively use Intel motherboards, which are
very picky (gold plated only, only certain brands, etc.)

> > From: Michael <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu>
> > Date: 2002/03/01 Fri AM 12:28:46 EST
> > To: members@mlug.missouri.edu
> > CC: kplug-list@kernel-panic.org, nolug@nolug.org
> > Subject: [Nolug] ram issues?
> >
> > I bought four 32M 72 pin EDO SIMM modules and when I try to install them,
> > the system boots and the BIOS detects the memory. I tried booting into
> > Linux both with and without the 'mem=128M' line and booting into Windows
> > and all failed during the boot process. In Linux I started getting swap
> > and filesystem errors. Now the system only recognized 16M of memory (my
> > old memory) rather than the proper 48M.
> >
> > The online manual for my system said it takes this memory but it doesn't
> > seem to work in any combination. The system is a Gateway P5-133XL. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute of it.
> >
> > ;):):-):):-):):-)8')
> > Michael McGlothlin <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu>
> > http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/
> >
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Tim Kelley
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