Why adding memory made GNOME unstable?

[seberino at spawar.navy.mil]

This Pentium 3 533 Mhz had 2  64Mb bars for years (128 Mb total)....

I tried to add a PC133 256Mb bar just now and got problems....

BIOS saw all memory since the memory check at boot up
ran thru some number of Mbs that 390Mb-ish....

However, rest of RedHat loaded fine until GNOME....

After logging into gdm it would tell me the panel
crashed.  It would also take forever for GNOME to load
and configure after I typed in my login and password.
It would take forever on the "loading GNOME Audio" part.

When I removed the new memory bar all was fine.

Why would adding new memory mess up GNOME panel and 
in general mess up GNOME???

Chris

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Dr. Christian Seberino
SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego
Code 2363
49590 Lassing Road, Room A339
San Diego, CA 92152-6147
U.S.A.

Phone: (619) 553-7940
Fax:   (619) 553-1269
Email: seberino at spawar.navy.mil
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