[CentOS] core 2 duo motherboards and centos 4

Tue Jan 23 02:46:15 UTC 2007
Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet.com>

javajunkie wrote:
> Hi,
>   
>> Funny, I was advised to buy a ASUS P5B-VM since I need 8MB memory.
>>     
>
> I have that board.  Do NOT get it for >3gb of memory.
>
> To get >3gb of mem you need to enable "extended memory remapping" in the
> bios
>
> When you do that, the system will be very very unusably slow.
>
> I contacted support and they say the P5B-VM only supports windows, which
> actually yes it does say that in the manual though not on the web site
> where I looked before buying.
>
> Anyway, windows users complain of the same problem.
>
> We (linux and windows users) were all using the suggested bios 0606
> (beta).
>
> Perhaps in the future, but at this time I can say the board doesn't
> support 8GB of memory.
>
> I just checked the Asus user forums where 10 of us posted on this probem
> and nothing has changed.
>
> Shawn
>   

So basically, Asus went cheap on the memory controllers on the board, 
and that's
why it not only doesn't support 8GB, but it doesn't support more than 
2GB with
full performance.

Peter

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