Gigabyte K8NSNXP motherboard report

["Karl Hoppel" <karl.hoppel@nrl.navy.mil>]

FYI,

I currently have debian-pure-amd64 running successfully on a Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939
motherboard.  However, there is one caveat.  The memory had to be configured as
single-channel instead of dual-channel.  I am no hardware export, but there is a 
lot of chatter on other forums about problems with the memory access on this 
Gigabyte board and others using the new AMD 939 pin chip with the integrated
memory controller.  When configured with dual-channel memory, 
I experienced random segmentation faults, about every half hour, using both 
the 64 and 32 bit debian installation.  Maybe with some bios  upgrades or 
future releases of this mother board, it will become stable using the 
faster dual-channel memory as it was designed for.

Cheers,
Karl




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... Karl Hoppel                                    
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