512mb ram only reads as 256mb? Why?

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• Dec 5, 2005

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I have a double sided 512mb pc133 ram and my Gigabyte ga-6vm7a+ board only shows it to be a 256mb. The manual says the board can read 512mb.

any help?

i have the latest bios

 

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• Dec 5, 2005

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try it in another machine if possible and see if the problem is because the ram is faulty etc, or make sure your MB supports the brand of ram

 

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• Dec 5, 2005

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Did u put the ram in a diff ram slot on the mother board... either its the mb or the ram.

 

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• Dec 5, 2005

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seeing you put this in the adsl section...i would double check to see that you didnt put the ram into a pci slot just jokes welcome to myadsl!

 

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jjtoymachine said:

seeing you put this in the adsl section...i would double check to see that you didnt put the ram into a pci slot just jokes welcome to myadsl!

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LOL

 

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Did you buy Telkom RAM? If so, it is probably shaped or capped. You will need to buy another 512MB of RAM, or upgrade to the 1GB of RAM package to be able to use 512...

 

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Moederloos said:

Did you buy Telkom RAM? If so, it is probably shaped or capped. You will need to buy another 512MB of RAM, or upgrade to the 1GB of RAM package to be able to use 512...

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LMAO. That's a good one!

 

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Your motherboard only supports PC100 and not PC133.

 

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RAM has a problem, take it back to where you bought it.

 

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ram probably is perfectly fine, you state its double sided! your board probably has an incompatibility with this!

 

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Replace RAM with EWE, That'll leave you feeling sheepish.

 

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Gigabyte ga-6vm7a+ Supports Dual saided RAM, its the chip it's self take it back.

 

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Yeah, dont listen to me, i did have this problem with a client and it was the speed that was the problem.

 

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Farquaon said:

Yeah, dont listen to me, i did have this problem with a client and it was the speed that was the problem.

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again look at the board he has ... it supports PC133.

I had a problem where a 256mb chip showed up as 512mb and it was the RAM.

 

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If i bought a 256mb RAM stick that showed up as 512mb, then I definately WOULD NOT send it back.

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again look at the board he has ... it supports PC133.

I had a problem where a 256mb chip showed up as 512mb and it was the RAM.

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I was under the impression that SDRAM was down-gradable, ie: PC133 RAM can be used in place of PC100, albeit at the slower clock speed. I may be wrong though

Farquaon said:

Yeah, dont listen to me, i did have this problem with a client and it was the speed that was the problem.

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well that is generally correct, however not 100% fact, some things just dont work with other thing

 

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Suppose there is always an 'exception to the rule'.

 

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CodeMaster said:

I was under the impression that SDRAM was down-gradable, ie: PC133 RAM can be used in place of PC100, albeit at the slower clock speed. I may be wrong though

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Incorrect 100 can be used in place of 133 not the other way round.

 

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• Dec 6, 2005

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Moederloos said:

Did you buy Telkom RAM? If so, it is probably shaped or capped. You will need to buy another 512MB of RAM, or upgrade to the 1GB of RAM package to be able to use 512...

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ROFL
i reckon we could blame telkom for anything