[PLUG] Them memory upgrade blues

[Charles R Allen]

"Christopher N. Deckard" wrote:

> 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.

It's an Athlon 800 purchased over the summer... I was pretty sure it supports
the memory.. plus, i don't thik the BIOS would be able to detect it correctly
if the motherboard didn't support it... is that right?

-chuck


>
>
> 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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