adding memory to my laptop causes subsequent f9a installs to fail

[Enrique Garcia]

i isntall FC8 with 2 GB memory and i add another 1GB without probrem
and later another 1GB and the problem the FC8 only see 3.2 GB and with
FC9 64bits and FC 32 bits it's the same.

some motherboard don't like mem of diferents size or producers

regards

2008/2/21, Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl>:
> Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >   until now, i've test installed f9a several times on a gateway laptop
> > with 512M of RAM.  after adding another 1G of DDR 400 RAM, every
> > install attempt ends up hanging somewhere -- checking SW dependencies,
> > formatting the root filesystem, and the latest 300+ packages into the
> > install.
>
> In my experience, random hangs/crashes are due to bad hardware (overheated
> CPU, bad powersource, bad RAM). Start running memtest for a full round.
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