From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:24:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a1002120724g54143ef0i1c5e8e9c0a612862@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.393c02da77b1e67e@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> On 12 Feb, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Hi, Gentoo,
>>
>> My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
>>
>
> Just one more reason.
>
> Have you got more than 4 Gb RAM installed?
>
> If yes, you might have to reduce memory speed.
> Some CPUs (among them AMD Phenom) have difficulties
> at the specified RAM speed if more than 1 memory bank is
> installed.
> I have been burnt by that several times.
> Helmut.
I had exactly the situation you described. 4 GB of RAM worked great at
800MHz but when I increased to 8 GB I had to lower speed to something
like 533 MHz otherwise system was very unstable. In my case Intel Core
2 Duo E6600. I contacted the RAM manufacturer and this was their
recommendation as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-12 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-12 8:54 [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 8:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-12 9:13 ` William Kenworthy
2010-02-12 9:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 9:49 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-02-12 9:56 ` Lewis Handy
2010-02-12 9:57 ` Daniel Wagener
2010-02-12 10:05 ` Roy Wright
2010-02-12 10:10 ` Roy Wright
2010-02-12 10:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-12 11:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 12:43 ` [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86 Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 12:43 ` Dale
2010-02-12 13:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 14:27 ` Dale
2010-02-12 19:25 ` [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it! Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 20:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-12 23:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2010-02-13 17:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-13 22:46 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-14 0:08 ` Dale
2010-02-14 0:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-14 5:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-12 13:00 ` [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86 Alan McKinnon
2010-02-12 12:56 ` [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-12 19:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 12:17 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-12 12:33 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-02-12 15:24 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2010-02-12 16:35 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-13 1:02 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-02-13 1:10 ` Dale
2010-02-13 1:11 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=58965d8a1002120724g54143ef0i1c5e8e9c0a612862@mail.gmail.com \
--to=paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox