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eff64
December 23rd, 2018, 07:47 PM
Hello,
I am the owner of an old Dell OptiPlex 755 desktop PC. I recently switched to Lubuntu 18.10 Cosmic LXQt 32bit(it was running slowly under Mint Sylvia before-which I kept in another partition)and all was well until I decided to add more RAM(had only 2GB before) with a 2GB stick.


After the upgrade only Mint boots flawlessly and recognizes the whole 4GB while
Lubuntu's loading animation seems to run forever.
When trying to boot in recovery mode I get the following "error":
[xxx.xxxxxx]ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.7:dma_direct_map_sg:overflow 0x000000011b4c1000+4096 of device mask ffffffff.

I tried four different boot options from "Advanced options" in GRUB(.14 "normal" and recovery mode, .13 "normal" and recovery mode) but none will work.
When I remove the new RAM stick Lubuntu boots, when I replace the old with the new it boots too.

I'm stuck there, any help ?

Regards

oldos2er
December 24th, 2018, 08:22 PM
Run memtest? Sounds like there could be a problem with the new RAM.

ubfan1
December 24th, 2018, 09:54 PM
Perhaps you need to force PAE, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE
but that may be old advice.

eff64
December 26th, 2018, 02:45 PM
Thanks, I'll try both suggestions.

eff64
December 27th, 2018, 05:40 PM
After running a quick memtest no errors were shown, forcepae solved it, or seemed to do so.Anyways I now enjoy 4GB on all distros, thanks :)