Dan Halbert wrote: > It turns out we were misinformed by an incorrect packing slip. I > apologize for the red herring. These are actually Tyan GT20 boxes with > Tyan K8SSA (S3870) motherboards. They have 6 DIMM slots and use a > ServerWorks BCM5785 (HT-1000) chipset. The config of DIMM slots is > kind of weird: there are four nominally supporting the first processor > and two supporting the second, though the processors can read from > each other's slots. > > As for mixing RAM, we did try 4x1GB of identical DIMM's, and got the > same problems with i386 CentOS 4.4 . x86_64 is fine. > I don't have any experience with that particular board or chipset. Sorry. Tyan tech support is going to be pretty worthless so I hope you're able to track down the cause of the problem. I'd be curious to know what the root problem is when you get things sorted. Cheers,