I am looking for anyones opinion here. I have a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard with a AMD Phenom 9600 CPU and 2x G.Skill 4GB DDR2-1066 PC2-8500 memory kits (total of 8 GB). I also have a HighPoint 3120 RAID controller with 2x WD Raptoer 150 GB 10K SATA drives.
When I install OpenSUSE 11 with all the memory in the machine the PAE kernel is installed and the installation goes fine. I reboot and the kernel seg faults when it attempts to mount the volumes (using LVM).
I have tried many things including running the SLED memtest (the opensuse one hangs - one clue) for 100 hours with no issues/errors. I know it is strange that the opensuse memtest hung but it is also strange that the SLED one worked fine. Last evening I pulled all but one memory stick out - so the machine now has 1x 2 GB memory stick - the machine boots fine. I put a 2nd stick in the kernel seg faults.
I booted with 1x memory stick installed and then installed the default kernel. I can now install all the memory again but obviously the kernel only sees 3 GB.
My question is - I’m not sure what Gigabyte is going to tell me if I call them but I’ll try. I wanted to post here and see if anyone has any bright ideas :-). I would hate to go try a different mboard but may have to. BTW - I booted the machine successfully with each of the 4 memory sticks in the machine singularly so I’m relatively sure the issue isn’t a bad memory stick.
It could be the mboard is just flakey … ?
