From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264415AbTDPOrY (for ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:47:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264426AbTDPOrY (for ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:47:24 -0400 Received: from h000.c000.snv.cp.net ([209.228.32.64]:55806 "HELO c000.snv.cp.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264415AbTDPOrW (for ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:47:22 -0400 X-Sent: 16 Apr 2003 14:59:14 GMT Message-ID: <003e01c30428$bb6de410$6901a8c0@athialsinp4oc1> From: "Brien" To: Subject: my dual channel DDR 400 RAM won't work on any linux distro Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:59:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (I posted this on some forums and they recommended that I try here) Hi, I have a Gigabyte SINXP1394 motherboard, and 2 Kingston 512 MB DDR 400 (CL 2.5) RAM modules installed. Whenever I try to install any Linux distribution, I always get a black screen after the kernel loads, when I have dual channel enabled; If I take out 1 of the RAM modules (either one), everything works as it should -- it's not a bad module (works perfectly under Windows by the way). I can't disable dual channel without taking out half of my RAM, and I really do not want to run with only half of it. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this problem, or is it something that needs to be updated in the kernel? Thanks for any info.