Re: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13

From: Guennadi Liakhovetski
Date: Tue Sep 27 2005 - 16:45:47 EST


On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Erik Mouw wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:42:44PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > Version B here. It first had only 128MB, worked fine, I added 256MB,
> > system become unstable, memtest86 found "bad memory" around the last
> > megabytes. Then I bought 512MB, hoping to use it with 256MB - no way.
> > Every module alone works, but not together. But in my case memtest86 did
> > find errors. Try removing the 256MB module?...
>
> FWIW, some VIA based chipsets only take a single DDR400 module, not
> two. The manuals are a bit vague about it.

My manual says "2". And it's a A7VI-VM, so, unfortunately, no DDR400, just
PC133/VC133.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski
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