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[Edward]

Upon upgrading the memory in an older PC, Linux would not boot up afterwards. During the initialization, it eventually displayed this error:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 816cc448

then displayed what looked like a small core dump of the memory and it froze at that point. Removing the new memory and replacing it with the original memory, eliminated this problem and Linux booted up fine.

The new memory installed had been four 64 Mb EDO SIMM's (16x32). The original memory consists of two 32 Mb EDO SIMM's (8x32) and two 16 Mb EDO SIMM's (4x32).

Would the fact that the new memory being 16x32 (whatever it means) was not compatible with the motherboard?

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[Antony]

If you take out the new RAM and put the old one back. Would it boot up?

Can the system see the RAM at all?

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[Edward]

With the old memory back in, the PC boots up perfectly.

When the new memory was in, the initialization detected it and displayed the correct total amount.

There was something Linux didn't like about it..

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[Antony]

It could be your new RAM is one of the newer format that's not fully supported by your mother board OR your new RAM is not 100% compatible with your mother board.

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