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Ram shennangians

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Our antique family computer is having a little trouble with ram. Pentium 200mmx, dating back to 97 I think...

It had a 32mb stick in there. The other day the ps fan burnt out and the comp was getting rather unhealthy. Replaced the fan, swapped in a 64mb stick before I booted it post fan replacement. It was only recognizing as a 16mb stick... Went out for the weekend.

Came home, tried to put the old 32mb stick back in... it no longer worked. May have been made ill when the ps fan burnt out, may have been played with since it was sitting here while I was gone for a couple of days. Either way, it's dead.

That leaves us with a 64mb that thinks it's 16mb. It's not 16mb, it's been in my computer for a few months and it sure is 64mb. This has happened before with that computer, it insisted before that a 64mb stick was 16mb too.

What am I doing wrong? It's seated correctly, my experience shows that a comp will not POST if the ram isn't in right. It's happened with more than one stick, both of which I knew were fine. What's going wrong? What should I be changing in bios to make it realise it's 64 and not 16mb?


Cliff notes
1) Antique computer needs ram
2) It only recognizes any 64mb stick I've tried as 16mb
3) It runs excruciatingly slow with 16mb and need to fix that before I get executed.

Cheers.
 
what does your computer do ? I mean that thing can run like windows 3.1 or something ....

anyway maybe the ram you installed was pc133 or somethign and the computer only likes pc100

did you mess with bios settings ?
 
Runs win95... it's the general use computer for the family, used for many hours every day for business, net, games and school stuff by 6 different people.

Ram is pc100... can't find a straight out mhz setting in bios... nothing was changed though from the 32mb, so if it was running at 66 then would the ram have a problem running underspeed? I'd have thought.. but not sure hence I'm asking :)

Fiddled with settings since to no avail :(
 
Maybe the ram socket holding thingy is messed up and screwed up your 64mb module.

I really cant think of anything else to help you out ...
 
5v EDO DIMM or 3.3v SDR DIMM?

You must, must use low density memory with that setup. Most PC133 made today (read: basically all) is high density memory, of which it appears only 1 bank is readable?

the 32mb stick is probably just fried.
 
Originally posted by SonicTron
5v EDO DIMM or 3.3v SDR DIMM?

You must, must use low density memory with that setup. Most PC133 made today (read: basically all) is high density memory, of which it appears only 1 bank is readable?

the 32mb stick is probably just fried.
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...yep. Older chipsets rarely play nice with "high density" ram.

What motherboard is it....??

B.B.S.
 
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