I had seen a few similar cases, I don't really know why the problem appear, but
they all happened on old mobo, so I guess this is a BIOS issue or the mobo
itself.

Jun Qian

bob r wrote:

> i tried replacing a 66mhz 8 meg sdram in a compaq 4508 with a 32 meg
> chip. not long ago someone on this list pointed out that these machines
> need a low density chip but what was delivered to me was a high density
> 100 mhz pny chip and i decided to give it a try.
> this machine has 16 meg soldered on the board and one slot that takes
> an sdram chip -- with the 32, i'd have 48 if all was well.
> but with the new chip installed, setup reports 32 meg of memory, windows
> reports 24 and compaq diagnostics reports 16.
> i'm going to return the chip, of course, but can anyone tell me why there's
> a disparity in the count? (i haven't used the machine enough to have
> a sense of whether it's performing differently.)

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