HELP!! MEMORY PROBLEMS!!

[Neo81]

I have a AI5TV-1 Motherboard (with a P150) on the motherboard site it says that it can handle a 64meg stick of SDRAM, I first tried a pc133 stick and found it only picked up 16 meg, I though the ram must be too fast for the machine, I then got a new pc66 64 meg stick and tried that only to find it will only pick up 16 meg !! Please help

Neo81

 

[LeoP]

must be something wrong with the board.....hmmmm....

 

[iamapollo]

Have you tried putting it in different slots?

 

[Neo81]

There is only 1 168pin slot to stick it in I have come to the conclusion that the ram is still too fast for the older board

 

[kjseever]

The ram shouldn't be to fast. The board should run a faster chip just fine it would just run it a slower speed. I don't think they made dimms that ran slower than 66mhz but I could be wrong.

 

[tlcscousin]

You would need to read the motherboard book. The older boards had limitations on what and where memory had to be.
An example would be if using a dimm slot 3+4 had to be empty.
This would be covered in the book telling you which way the memory had to be installed if using a combination of simms and dimms.

 

[LeoP]

hey NEO81,
hmm...your board has both EDO and SDRAM memory slots in it, right? and during those days SDRAM chips were a lot higher in cost and a little bit scarce too.. Maybe your SDRAM slots have some kind of defect but u have no way of telling it until now. OR, shovel204 is right, some boards do limit the type of memory combination on the Simm and Dimm slots. Consult the manual. The answer maybe in there... you still have the motherboard manual, right? right? =D

 

[Neo81]

Thanks people for you Ideas, I was pulling my hair out trying to get it working.... the board can only handle 64 meg of sdram, but the reason that the board could not reconize the ram is because it had Extended Memory chips on the actuall memory stick, I got this info of a tech i usto work with......

Neo81