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| Thread ID: 35215 | 2003-07-05 07:44:00 | how much ram am I allowed | jimdickin (856) | Press F1 |
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| 157667 | 2003-07-05 07:44:00 | I currently have 128mb of pc100 sdram and am hoping to fit some more in my remaining 168 pin slot. My question is, is there a limit to the amount I can fix I have a gigabyte 7Ixe motherboard, the only possibly relevant thing I can find in the manual is a 'Max Component Density: 128Mb' I do not know what this means and if it will affect my ability to upgrade the ram. Planning to buy from the net, can anybody recomend any sites? Thank you all for any help cheers jim |
jimdickin (856) | ||
| 157668 | 2003-07-05 08:13:00 | The online manual says (page 21) that you have 3 memory slots, each capable of taking combinations of 32/64/128/256 Meg sticks. If running win95/98/ME then you cannot use more than 512Meg total. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 157669 | 2003-07-05 10:24:00 | check the specs. what type of ram dos it require? to fill it, it may require double sided and even registered ram. > If running win95/98/ME then you cannot use more than 512Meg total. o please not this old wifes tale yet again! i thought this tale died ages ago. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 157670 | 2003-07-06 00:07:00 | thanks mate where do i find the online manual and what about double sided ram all i know is 168 pin thanks again |
jimdickin (856) | ||
| 157671 | 2003-07-06 00:24:00 | download from asia (asia.giga-byte.com), america (america.giga-byte.com) or europe (europe.giga-byte.com) | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 157672 | 2003-07-06 01:06:00 | Hi Jim, Have a read of this article (www.sospubs.co.uk) which gives some suggestions for upgrading RAM. It also mentions the work-around for the apparent Windows RAM limitation. HTH |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 157673 | 2003-07-06 04:12:00 | My guess is that "maximum component density" (apart from being wrong terminology -- I'm sure they mean "unit size" rather than "component density") of 128 MB means that you can have one 128MB stick in each slot you have . I'm not sure if you have 2 64MB sticks, and one free slot, or just two slots, one with a 128 MB stick . That makes your limit either 256MB or 384 MB . Such a limitation is common (to save a few milli-cents per board for tracks :D) and it means that they have installed only enough memory address lines for 128 MB in each slot . You could put bigger sticks in, but the system could only address 128 MB of each . It's not a new thing . . . my Tandy laptop had 2MB on the motherboard, and 2 30 pin SIMM sockets . It could be expanded to 4 MB . I tried 4MB simms instead of 1MB ones, but the speciofication was right: "expandible to 4 MB" . They hadn't put in the 2 extra address lines . :_| |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 157674 | 2003-07-07 01:45:00 | Thanks for the link to that article Gorela ..most helpful and enlightening. | Pheonix (280) | ||
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