Re: ram

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:01:28PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > You MUST however have at least one stick of ram installed per cpu in
> > that cpu's memory area.  If you don't put ram in A3 or B3, then it will
> > not see CPU2 at all.
> 
> Really? My Tyan board works fine with RAM on only one CPU. The only 
> restriction is that you must have at least one dimm installed in the system 
> (duh!).
> 
> The converse is not true. ie. you can only install memory in A3/B3 if you have 
> two CPUs installed.

Well I was talking to someone on irc last week with that particular asus
board, and he had two dual core cpus, and 2 sticks of ram installed in
A1+B1, and it refused to see the second cpu.  I suggested he move B1 to
A3, and when he did, the second cpu showed up.

Maybe it isn't supposed to be that way, but it certainly acted that way.

Len Sorensen