[PLUG] Them memory upgrade blues

[Christopher N. Deckard]

Does your motherboard support the "high density" memory?  Normally
it's only the newer boards that use the AMD procs or the newest of
the Intel boards.

Also, if Win2k is anything like NT 4 was, you need to first get rid
of your swapfile under Windows before you install the new memory. 
>From my understanding of it, the Windows kernel treats main memory
and virtual memory as one big chunk of memory and it has fixed
values.  If you add more main memory then your swap file isn't
mapped properly and Windows dies.  Go Micro$haft!!!

You may want to try running memtest
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/memtest/) and see if it works.

-Chris

Charles R Allen wrote:
> 
> Hi... I have a problem with some memory I just bought.  The current
> memory is a single pc100 128mb strip.  I purchased a pc133 256mb strip
> and put it in one of my free memory slots.  My bios did not have any
> problems finding the memory and correctly displayed my current memory in
> the upper 300's.... <big grin>  I was a little surprised the pc133 and
> pc100 mixed.  But when I tried to boot linux, it did not boot correctly,
> stopping right after the cpu initialization, I'm not sure of the exact
> step (I boot off a floppy).  I tried booting into w2k off my hard drive
> and it didn't like my new memory either.. it just said "something is
> wrong, please remove the problem" (more or less)...   I then tried
> putting in the 256 mb strip alone to see if perhaps.the pc100 and pc133
> did not mix as well as I had hoped.... same problem... Could there be a
> bug in the memory strip itself?   any comments would be helpful!
> 
> thanks,
> -chuck
> 
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