Gigabyte GA-7ZMMH RAM issue

[BarryG]

Yeah, it's an old board. I got it for next to nothing and it seems to work. The issue is that it's reading the SDRAM sticks at exactly half their capacity. Could this be an issue of single-sided vs. double-sided sticks? Could it be bad RAM sockets?

Thanks for all your thoughts.
Barry

 

[BarryG]

Help?

 

[BarryG]

Anyone?

TIA, Barry

 

[BarryG]

ttt

 

[Peter]

Nothing to do with DIMM sides - rather more with the size of the individual RAM chips. The board's chipset must be capable of addressing each chip's full capacity - and if it doesn't, you get exactly the symptom you describe, only half the usable size.

You need to use DIMMs that employ RAM chips of a supported size and kind. What do you have now (quote exact product specification) for DIMMs, and what chipset does the mainboard use?

 

[Steve]

GA-7ZMMH

 

[BarryG]

Originally posted by: Peter
Nothing to do with DIMM sides - rather more with the size of the individual RAM chips. The board's chipset must be capable of addressing each chip's full capacity - and if it doesn't, you get exactly the symptom you describe, only half the usable size.

You need to use DIMMs that employ RAM chips of a supported size and kind. What do you have now (quote exact product specification) for DIMMs, and what chipset does the mainboard use?

I wish I knew the exact specs. The only thing the sticker says on one of them is that it's a Gateway product and the other has Hyundai chips. I suppose I could read the numbers off the chips, eh?
The chipset is shown on the page linked below as

VIA VT8365A (KM133A)

VIA VT82C686B

Chipset with build in S3 savage 4 graphics core

Creative CT5880 PCI sound chip (4 channel)

Originally posted by: sm8000
GA-7ZMMH

Thanks, I already had that link though.

Guys, I'm giving up on that particular board for the time being. It works but I think I'm going to purchase new RAM for it. Something was causing it to hang while installing XP (occasionally) and I got a BSOD once during installation too. I was able to finish the installation but during some of the updates it would spontaneously restart. Odd.
I have a couple more modern boards and one less modern one to fool with for a while. Thanks for your help!
Barry