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
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