[NTLUG:Discuss] OT:strange memory activity

[Wayne Dahl]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 10:22, Wayne Dahl wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 06:57, Burton M. Strauss III wrote:
> > As was pointed out earlier, your older machine probably doesn't recognize
> > more than 64M per bank.  Often each side is a separate bank.  So with a
> > double sided DIMMs, you have two banks that the MB can recognize.  This
> > design is common on 3 DIMM motherboards - you can have only four banks
> > between the 3 sockets.
> > 
> > -----Burton
> 
> This is not the case with this machine.  It only has 2 slots for memory
> and both sticks of memory are single sided.  

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that it DID magically recognize the full
128 Meg stick when it was in the computer by itself, but it also did it
by itself.  When I installed it, it was only seeing 64 Megs, but when I
went to upgrade the memory again, it was seeing the full stick.  Nothing
was done to the machine in the interim...case was not cracked open,
etc.  For no apparent reason, it just started seeing the whole stick. 
This is my hope of the new 256 Meg stick I just installed, although I'm
not holding my breath.  

I'm hoping to get a new computer soon so I can give her one of our other
ones that works better.  :)

Wayne