Memory question

[Raydee]

I just installed a 256mb PC133 memory chip in my PC and it only shows that it is 128. Any idea's why? This is the second chip that has done this.

[inferno207]

faulty stick ?

[billmanhart]

Does your motherboard manual say the slots will accept memory chips large that 128MB?

Have you tried different DIMM slots?

[Asendin]

its likely a memory conflict with the way the motherboard is mapped to handle ram.

try another slot and also try the new memory stick by itself in the MB to rule out that its not a faulty module, i doubt it is faulty , if it was it would usually error out with a bios beep error.

how much memory does your MB support??

[Raydee]

Well I don't think its the stick because it is the second one I bought in two days. I have four slots that handle 256 each. I will try it in one of the other slots by itself and see what happens! Thanks for the replies.

[inferno207]

what kinda motherboard do you have ?
the make and model would help

[slawless]

some mother boards can only recognize a certain "chip density". count the number of chips on the memory stick, divide the total memory by the number of chips. the Shuttle AI61 I have will only see 16mb per chip. so the 256mb stick would need 16 chips of 16mb each. If there were only 8 chips (32mb/chip) it will only see half the memory. Obviously, you board may be different.

Steve L

[Raydee]

I am running a ASUS P3B-F. It is an older board but it has the newest Bios update. I emailed the Asus tech guys and I am waiting to see what they say about it!

[inferno207]

http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardw...reviews/889/3/

check this out it only supports pc 10o not pc 133 so make sure you are running pc 100