Added RAM to PC and Voodoo3 looses colors?

[Garion]

Something odd just happened to my wife's computer (PII400, Asus P2B, Voodoo3 3000 AGP). I replaced the 128 MB SIMM with a 256MB SIMM to give her a bit more juice. All was fine, with the exception of video. It acts like the V3 lost some RAM or something. It used to do 1024x768 at 16 million colors, no problem. Now max is 256. Similar drops at higher resolutions.

Anyone heard of this? Some kind of setting in the card or in the MB BIOS that I need to tweak? Help!

- G

 

[HappyGamer2]

http://www.voodoosource.net/


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[AndyHui]

You mean DIMMs, yes?

You may want to check up on the RAM that you have. The BX chipset cannot support high density SDRAM, which is a lot of what is floating around today. Intel chipsets do not support ??x4 type SDRAM (which is generally what 256MB DIMMs are). There is also a limit on how much RAM the BX chipset will support on a single DIMM. Make sure that your DIMM a double sided with 16 chips of RAM in total.

You may also want to flash to the latest BIOS, version 1014 Beta 001. This is the best BIOS to use at this time.

 

[The_Lurker]

<< You mean DIMMs, yes?

You may want to check up on the RAM that you have. The BX chipset cannot support high density SDRAM, which is a lot of what is floating around today. Intel chipsets do not support ??x4 type SDRAM (which is generally what 256MB DIMMs are). There is also a limit on how much RAM the BX chipset will support on a single DIMM. Make sure that your DIMM a double sided with 16 chips of RAM in total.

You may also want to flash to the latest BIOS, version 1014 Beta 001. This is the best BIOS to use at this time. >>




I know for sure that the BX can support 256mb Dimms. SInce i have a P3B-F and i can have over 1 gb of ram. I know it doesn't support 512mb ram though.

 

[AndyHui]

There are several different steppings of the BX chipset. Earlier steppings do not support 256MB DIMMs.

The P3B-F is a late model BX....you cannot apply the same to the P2B board.