[H-GEN] 4->8gb ram instability?

[Greg Black]

On 2010-06-21, Ben Martin wrote:
>   On the odd chance that somebody has ventured and been bitten, I have
> an AMD X4 machine which runs well with 4gb of RAM but on upgrade to 8gb
> (4 sticks total) random crashes ensue, from yum through to bash. This is
> a Fedora 13 64bit distro machine. The thing runs solid for 3+ passes of
> memtest86 so I'm thinking it can address it's RAM fine.

I have an AMD X2 that does similar stuff with 8G (mainly noticed
with OpenSolaris which I was testing at the time), but also seen
with BSD and Linux installations.  Worked fine with 4G.

Although it refuses to start now when I went to check what OS it
was running last ...

I also have an Intel Core 2 quad that is too flaky to use with
OpenSolaris but has been running recent Ubuntu distros quite
successfully.  I decided it was all too hard to debug and have
been taking the path of least resistance, but I'd be interested
to hear any further info on these issues.

Cheers, Greg