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From: Robert Zeoli <[log in to unmask]>


Hi

I have a 200meg pentium with 32 megs ram.  The mother board
is a 8500TVG Pentium VX System Board.  I don't know who the
mother board manufactuer is, the users manual is pretty
generic.

I just installed an additional 64 ( 2 - 32meg EDO pcs) megs
of ram to a system with 32 megs ( 2 16meg EDO pcs ).
I did move the original 32 to the other 2 open rows (bank 1)
per the diagram on page 1-22 of the users manul for 96 megs
of RAM. The new  RAM went into bank 0.

During boot the ram check goes okay till 70megs then the
computer beeps three times.
It stops checking the ram  and continues the boot process.
Under "My Computer" properties,  it comes up as 70 megs of
ram.
Funny thing though when I go into the Bios as the booting
sequence is checking the ram, it checks through to 96megs.
Then My Computer properties shows 96 megs of ram.
Is there somthing I need to change in the Bios to add RAM?

I tried it with the RAM in the other slots 2-16's in bank 0
and the 2 32's in bank 1 but it then only shows 40megs.

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I hope someone will correct me if I am wrong, but it was(is)
my understanding that the VX chipset is limited to caching
only the first 64 MB of RAM, and that installing more will
actually provoke a performance hit.  How well does your
machine run if you simply put in the 2 32MB SIMMS?

Another avenue to investigate, should the above not be the
problem, is are the SIMMS all of the same type, and will the
motherboard accommodate unequal amounts of RAM in the two
banks.  (I tried to configure a Supermicro superTX chipset
m'board with a P233 MMX with 96 MB of RAM.  It would have
none of it, and I'm reasonably certain--after several
exchanges of the 2 32 MB SIMMS I purchased--that the memory
types were the same.  I tried 2 32's in bank 0 with 2 16's
in bank 1 and the reverse.  Neither was stable.  I went back
to just 64 MB and the machine has been stable.  I suspect I
will have to add another 64 MB in order to increase my RAM
and retain a stable machine.)

HTH,

Paul A. Shippert               Library/Media Specialist
"   . . . and I'm hovering like a fly
   waiting for the windshield on the freeway."  Genesis
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