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from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 2003-08-16 20:01:26
subject: bad ram

I never saw this one before...

Booting the linux workstation I'm messing with,  it goes through the normal
POST stuff fine,  as far as I can see.  There's 48M of ram in there,  2 16s
and 2 8s,  and I suspect the 8s have a problem as the system acted up a bit
when I had them in there with 4s before I got the 16s.

Anyhow,  booting the system gives a whole pile of messages,  typical of
linux, and up near the top are these:

BIOS-provided physical ram map:
 BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 {at} 00000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000400 {at} 0009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 02f00000 {at} 00100000 (usable)

I'm guessing that the first number refers to the size of the available
block of ram,  and the second one to the address.  Anybody ever seen these
before?

I just tested some sticks I had around here,  and will no doubt be pulling
those 8s and trying something else in there shortly...

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