[mythtv-users] I've lost 1 gig of ram

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Claude Gélinas <claude at phyto.qc.ca> wrote:
> Le mardi 20 janvier 2009 à 23:49 -0500, John Drescher a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>> > Claude Gélinas wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Le mardi 20 janvier 2009 à 20:30 -0800, David Brodbeck a écrit :
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> John Drescher wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> That is a 4 core cpu. Some detection must be wrong.
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I would try 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' and see how many CPUs are listed there.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> cat /proc/cpuinfo report only 3 cpu
>> >>
>> >
>> > Some of the Phenoms are 3 core....  You sure you have an X4 or an X3?  IIRC
>> > an X3 is a quadcore where one of the cores failed QAQC.
>> >
>>
>> It says:
>> powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Phenom(tm) 9850 Quad-Core Processor processors
>>
>> So this does not make sense to me.
>>
> On the box it said:
>
> 9850
> amd phenom X4 processor
> 2.5 Ghz True quad-core design
> X4 Black Edition
>
>

I am a little concerned about your motherboard and its support for
quad core chips. However I am not sure this is the problem. The reason
for my concern is quads use a new AM2+ instead of AM2 which you have.
The difference is AM2+ has dual power planes while AM2 does not. I
know Phenom2 chips absolutely require AM2+ but not sure about the
older Phenoms.

John