Quoting ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:53 PM, austinro@msu.edu wrote:
I'm not sure what other info might be useful, but I'll provide it or try whatever is asked. A few other possible clues: the factory bios only recognized half of my installed ram, but coreboot recognized all of it. With coreinfo or memtest as payloads, it did not restart, and it displayed the proper vga output.
can you remove the RAM that the BIOS did not find? In this way you remove any potential hardware problems.
This board only has one DIMM slot, and the board is only supposed to support up to 1G. I have 1G installed, and it gets reported as 512M. The only other nearly compatible RAM I have to try is a 2G stick; coreboot sees 2G, then has the same problem; the stock BIOS sees 1G, then Linux crashes later.
So no, I can't practically remove that RAM that wasn't found.
(This board is kind of lousy overall --when I bought it some of the reviews said it was fussy about RAM, but this particular brand/model# worked, so that's the one I bought, but as I said I could only use half, plus it's really fussy about booting from USB.)
Rob