Memory problems

[Skream9]

I'm building a new system. It's a Biostar M7VIG with a AMD 1900+ processor. I have 2 sticks of Crucial memory. They are CAS2 (CL=2) sticks (part number CT64M64S4D7E.16LT).

The BIOS is only seeing 256 meg of memory, but there is 1024 installed. I'm guessing it's related to the CAS2, but I'm lost.

BTW,
I have reseated both sticks. tried one and then the other. Sees the same amount of memory either way.

I've reloaded the failsafe also.

both are 512mb sticks.

Any ideas?

 

[MithShrike]

Your motherboard may not support that memory type although that does not seems to be a problem with newer boards now. I'd contact the manufacturer and bitch at them a bit. Also, you might want to try updating your BIOS.

 

[Peter]

hmmm ... what happens if you install just one of these sticks?

Give the board its latest BIOS, there is no Athlon-XP chipset that doesn't support DIMMs of that size, physically. Then, no matter what brand they are, the DIMMs might well be defective.

 

[deerslayer]

First I would try just one stick and see if it recognizes it correctly.

Try updating your BIOS to the latest version.