Guest sivunguvungu Posted July 13, 2003 Report Share Posted July 13, 2003 I recently upgraded my video card to an NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 256MB. I just installed 1 gig of RAM (2 512MB DDR3200). I've just started having problems with booting up. My caps lock and scroll lock lights blick on and off after any selection (no Windows on this machine). I'm using MDK 9.1. Is this too much memory? If so, is there a way around it? This is on an Athlon XP2400+. It was working fine with the video card and 256MB PC2100 RAM. Later, I'm going to try removing one module and seeing . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 13, 2003 Report Share Posted July 13, 2003 Welcone to the board The flashing LEDs often means a kernel oops. There is a bit about them here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kern...13322017590&w=2 johnnyv has had a similar problem http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...p?p=34339#34339 And there is some info here which might be of use, it's about http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3 Good luck James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sivunguvungu Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 I guess that I didn't browse back far enough. :) Well, I tried to just do a kernel compile, but had problems. So I just did an an install with the 1gig memory in there. Found out that the enterprise kernel they install is the one to boot to get the 1gig. Ended up upgrading kernel and compiling that so now I'm running -18. Now, I'm continuing bringing up my components again. 8) Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 On my sys it was no problem when I installed the second 512MB mem stick. True, I only get to use 890MB (or something like that) of the 1024, but since my gkrellm (or on command line: free) tells me that I don't use even 800MB I just know it's not worth it recompiling or using the enterprise kernel. Did you see if your bios settings are ok? For instance, the amount of mem allocated for the graphics buffer; my guess is that should also be 256MB...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sivunguvungu Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 While I was able to use the linux-nfb, I wanted to be to have the capability to use the full 1GB especially as I set up my PVR again. 8) I did double-check that the AGP aperture was 256MB, thought that wasn't the case beforehand. Also, my meminfo is total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 1053466624 533942272 519524352 0 39481344 280838144 Swap: 707330048 0 707330048 MemTotal: 1028776 kB MemFree: 507348 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 38556 kB Cached: 274256 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 158800 kB Inactive: 248752 kB HighTotal: 131008 kB HighFree: 2044 kB LowTotal: 897768 kB LowFree: 505304 kB SwapTotal: 690752 kB SwapFree: 690752 kB and buffers are good for help making this machine all that it can be.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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