There is definitely a high density problem with 256MB sticks.  If your
computer can take 512 MB DIMMS, it can take high density 256 DIMMS also,
otherwise it will only see 128MB of the stick.
Glen Sagers

>So checking for the better price on the website I asked for what the
>salesman  said was hi density ram.  He then waited a long time and said my
>board a Soyo K7 VIA 2AA3;VIA KX133 could only handle low density memory.  He
>had asked the number of chips on the present memory and could not seem to
>get it in his head  that did not count.  The assumption seemed to be made
>that this was cast in marble by a computer company.  Which in this case
>would have been me.  I have run several sticks of 128 in this but wanted to
>run the 256 instead.  Of course the reasons are as given - pictures.
>
>Is there such a thing as a hi density /lo density problem or was the
>salesman trying to sell the more expensive lo density?
>
>Thankyou
>
>Rick

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