bizarre error when adding a new mem stick
 

Okay... This is the most bizarre error I've ever had. I brought home a stick of 256mb pc130 ram and put it in my computer, along with another 64mb stick. I reboot, and it works fine... except that my system froze when I logged out of X.
Interesting, I thought, but didn't really pay attention to it. I shut down in order to trade the 64 mb stick with a 128mb one. This time, on boot, it gives me some kernel panic and refuses to boot... I was stupid enough not to write down the error. This happened twice.

I swapped the two sticks, put them in different slots, and it booted this time...but it does some wierd things. Every module it loads during boot says something like 'eepro100: already loaded'... I've looked all through my system logs but I can't seem to pinpoint the problem.

I also tried putting the original two sticks back in but it behaves in the same manner.

Another strange thing: when i load up fluxbox, the menu has about 3 items in it.

I am going to play with it a little longer, but I'm sure the 'already loaded' stuff is important. I don't remember it ever doing that before...

If anyone has ideas, that would be nice.

thanks everyone

Cant help you on the exact problem but memory usually has to have 2 sticks that compliment each other so if you have one in one slot you need one in the corresponding slot. They are usually colored slots or labeled bank 1,3,2,4 for the old dimms.

I don't think that's right... I used to just run one stick of 64 back in the day

Oh yea way back in the simms days and when the first dimms came out you could get away with one stick and it didnt matter what bank it was in, The last two systems I built had to have 2 dimms in 2 complimentary banks.