Well, this is supposition on my part, but I recall early Pentium Pro
motherboards that supported memory interleaving required at least two banks
of memory to be populated...

Interleaving means that first one bank, then the next is accessed.  If
you've only got one bank populated, it will be kind of hard to access the
other.  It provides a bit of a performance gain because as one bank is being
refreshed, the other can be accessed.  Of course, the key is to have two
DIMMs...and I suspect that they must both be the same size.  Is the memory
Micron or Crucial?  If it's Crucial Technologies (a brand of Micron's), you
can call their tech support department at 1-800-336-8916 to get more info.

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> I just purchased a new Epox EP-51MVP3E-M 100 MHz bus motherboard and am
> using it with one PC100 128 MB Micron SDRAM DIMM (8ns).  The default for
> SDRAM Bank Interleave in BIOS setup under Chipset Features is 2, out of
> available options for 2, 4, or Disabled.  The PC will only boot with the
> Disabled setting.  When I choose 2 (default) or 4 it POSTs
> (memory count is
> successful) and comes to the info screen just before "Starting
> Windows 95",
> fills in part of the screen (the primary HD section) along with a
> few random
> extended ASCII characters and hangs.  CTRL-ALT-DEL is successful, so the
> keyboard is still functional.
>
> Does anyone know what the SDRAM Bank Interleave setting does? Am I missing
> out on some performance feature by disabling it? Should I send back the
> Micron memory for some other type that works with this setting?

>