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View Full Version : Memory problem!! [; ; win98SE]
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jtaylor May 18, 2002, 01:56 PM I have a pc with a pc chips m571 board. when booting it shows 49 mb ram. No matter what memory chips I put in this is all it will see. Right now I have 2 32mb chips in it. It is pc100 sdram. Can anyone tell me whats wrong with this thing? Thanks in advance. Jim T. MasterMind May 18, 2002, 02:10 PM What happens when you keep only 32 MB on mainboard ? jtaylor May 18, 2002, 02:21 PM Thanks mastermind.. Even with only 1 32 mb chip, it shows 49mb.. MasterMind May 18, 2002, 02:28 PM NP taylor. Download SiS Soft Sandra from http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/sandra and test your system with it. Hopefully it will answer you problem/ questions. Look into Memory Test area. It seems you might need BIOS flash. jtaylor May 18, 2002, 02:44 PM With the 1 32mb chip installed, sandra says "total physical memory = 44mb". MasterMind May 18, 2002, 02:49 PM Here is BIOS flash for you mate. http://www.pcchips.com/bios.html jtaylor May 18, 2002, 02:58 PM Thanks, there are 3 updates for the m571 board. How do I know which one to dload ?? MasterMind May 18, 2002, 03:03 PM Get the latest one mate. Actually d/l all three. If BIOS updater says one is not suitable then you can try other one as well. jtaylor May 18, 2002, 03:06 PM Many thanks, I'll give it a shot.. jtaylor May 18, 2002, 03:33 PM When I flash the bios, do I have to boot back to my floppy drive and run it from there?? Thanks duffy90210 May 18, 2002, 04:01 PM Not really, if you download the new BIOS to a folder on the C: drive (make the name 8 characters or less with no space, ie. C:\BIOS ) Restart Win98 into MS-DOS mode Type CD \BIOS and then run the BIOS flash update from there. HTH jtaylor May 18, 2002, 04:40 PM Ok.... I have updated bios and I still show 49mb with one 32mb chip installed..Anyone else have any ideas please??? jtaylor May 19, 2002, 09:27 AM BUMP andyr May 19, 2002, 05:20 PM I'm not being funny but you are sure it's a 32 meg 'stick' and not a 64meg one? Sometime's, it can be hard to tell. If it's a 64 meg one then some of the memory could be being used by, say, an onboard graphics card (if your motherboard has one built in) If 15 meg was allocated to the gfx card that would leave the 49meg your system is reporting. Then again, I could just be talking crap!!! jtaylor May 19, 2002, 06:15 PM No Andyr, its a 32 mb chip, si sandra shows it as 44mb, and 49mb on boot up. What you say is very reasonable though... Thanks. Jim T. MasterMind May 20, 2002, 01:46 PM jtaylor, have you tried changing location of RAM sticks ? Is it possible for you to test the same stick(s) on your friends machine ? Or borrow someones RAM for few mins ?? jtaylor May 21, 2002, 09:32 PM Thanks again mastermind.. I have tried that too, and it shows up fine on my personal comp.. just a thought, but could tne mobo be bad??? Jim T. MasterMind May 22, 2002, 03:17 PM Hmmmm..... possible but very difficult to tell mate. |