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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
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 13:33:12 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tkrat.393c02da77b1e67e@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de>

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.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-12 12:33 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 [this message]
2010-02-12 15:24   ` Paul Hartman
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

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