[Casper]

Kool_ZX3,Jan 8 2006, 10:03 PM Wrote:Well awhile back i bout some ram for this old beast. It requires pc100 sdram so that's what i bought, a 128mb pc100 stick. I put it in and it only read 68mb of it, so i have like 192 not 256. Anyone know what's wrong??

I think i am going to get some more but can anyone help me in why it only reads half of the stick???
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Some older boards will not read dual-sided RAM. I had a motherboard like that once.... made it a pain to buy RAM. If your sticks of RAM have chips on both sides, there's your reason.

The only other reason is when the board can only read a certain amount of RAM in any given spot, or in total. Based on those numbers, though, I don't see this being a problem.

You could always see if there's a BIOS update available....