[NTLUG:Discuss] OT:strange memory activity

[Wayne Dahl]

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 21:09, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:

> I've seen that before in a computer.  It's been long enough that I don't 
> remember the cause clearly, but I think it was because the MB only supported 
> up to a certain size DIMM and anything over that was just simply ignored.  So 
> since there were 3 slots and it wouldn't take anything over 128M sticks, the 
> max was 384M for the machine--period--no other options.

The plot thickens.  I went over there yesterday and installed the 256Meg
stick in the computer.  I had put the 128 Meg stick in the back slot
before, so I just put the 256 Meg stick in the front slot (front being
the easiest one to get to, closest to the processor).  When I refired
the computer, it saw 128 Megs when it was seeing 64 Megs just before I
did that.

I installed her AOL 9.0 and off she went.  Sooo...she now has 374 Megs
of memory in the machine with only 128 Megs being recognized.  My hope
is that it will magically start seeing the other stick.  I'm afraid to
mess with it now...I don't want it to go back to seeing 64 Megs which
will screw up the new software.

Aren't computers fun?  :Þ

Wayne