Motherboard not reporting ram size correctly?

[vm]

My motherboard and windows report that my 512mb Samsung pc2700 stick is 256mb, why is that? I'm sure it's a 512mb stick. It says Bank 1 is used but not Bank 2...

this is on a Soltek p4x400 board


any ideas?

 

[Peter]

On a brandnew board w/ VIA chipset, hardware capabilities are there to use any flavor of 512-MByte DIMM. So either its 2nd side is bad, or the board's BIOS is doing something stupid.

regards, Peter

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: Peter
On a brandnew board w/ VIA chipset, hardware capabilities are there to use any flavor of 512-MByte DIMM. So either its 2nd side is bad, or the board's BIOS is doing something stupid.

regards, Peter

I would agree. VIA chipsets can run even high density ram. Take it out and try one of the other 3 slots if you have not yet.

Also what kind of ram?? is it Samsung Chips on someone elses board or Samsung Chips and Board

 

[vm]

I said it in the first post

unless you want the chip markings too

 

[vm]

ok I tried all 3 dimms and it still won't show 512mb

i wrote to Soltek but i don't expect a reply today.

 

[randomboy]

Is it just not reporting the right RAM size in the POST, or is it anywhere you look in Windows/BIOS it reports it as the wrong size??

Jeff

 

[vm]

it doesn't say anything in the CMOS...

i've seen 256mb in windows, photoshop and sisoft sandra

 

[Iron Woode]

If you can, try the ram in someone else's PC. If it shows 256 there then there is something wrong with the ram.