VL/I-486SV2GX4 m/o not recognizing Ram over 16 meg

[rokmcnz]

Hi. I have an old 486 PC with ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 motherboard and AMD DX4-100 CPU and 16 megs of Ram.
I tried to put more Memory into my motherboard, but if I put more than 16 megs of ram, PC shows 1 meg RAM only.
What cuold be the problem? Could it be the BIOS?
Other than the Memory Problem, PC seems to be running fine.

Thanks very much.

 

[edfair]

Unlikely that it is bios. Probably has to do with installing memory that the m/b doesn't like. What are you trying to add?
Lots of 486 didn't like the double memory (2 by anything and 8 by anything) but could handle 1x and 4x. Sounds like you have 4- 1x modules.
If you have motherboard documentation it will explain the memory limitations. Ed Fair
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