512Mb on Asus P2B

[Oracle]

Hi Fellas,
According to my P2B Manual, the board only accepts memory modules up to 256Mb per slot. Anyone had luck trying a 512Mb module in a P2B slot?
I hit a wall last night trying to scan a hi-res photo. Apparently, 256Mb wasn't enough on my system for the picture to load.


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[Crashman]

The limitation isn't due to the design of the board, but the BX chipset. Read the memory FAQ. In addition to that 256MB/slot limit, the 256MB module must have 16 chips on it. Anything with more than 16MB/chip can't be addressed properly by the BX.

You have to remember that at the time of it's release, this was 4x the density of most of the memory out there. And it affects many chipsets.

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