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Hi.
I can only get my pc to see 128mb of the 256mb stick. any ideas how to fix
this
Thanks

Viking 256MB PC100 168pin 8 chip SDRAM Memory Module

 

[Jerry]

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Best answerd by the tech support people at your motherboard manufacturer.

"Phill" <Phill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
> I can only get my pc to see 128mb of the 256mb stick. any ideas how to
> fix
> this
> Thanks
>
> Viking 256MB PC100 168pin 8 chip SDRAM Memory Module

 

[Guest]

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I can think of 2 things right off: bad memory or BIOS age is limiting
memory slots to only recognize a max of 128MB per slot (usually a BIOS
update can increase it). Also, as it has been a while since I've messed
with a PC with SDRAM, they may need to be install in pairs. I looked into
my old Desktop running Fedora Core 3 Linux and it has 512MB total, 4 128MB
modules of PC100, so I may be wrong on the pair's thing, but everything else
I have is running either DDR2 RAM or older RDRAM, both which require
inserting in pairs of same size.

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"Phill" <Phill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FEFEC301-E2C4-4C0D-B213-3D60CFAF049C@microsoft.com...
> Hi.
> I can only get my pc to see 128mb of the 256mb stick. any ideas how to
> fix
> this
> Thanks
>
> Viking 256MB PC100 168pin 8 chip SDRAM Memory Module