Somewhat wierd memory problem...

[jaggrey]

I just upgraded from a Biostar motherboard (AMD 750 based) to a Microstar K7 Pro (MS-6195, also AMD 750 based) and had 256 MB of RAM in there, but on my new Microstar one chip didn't work at all, and the other came up only as 32MB! Surprising to say the least, since the Biostar I had was very picky about RAM as well.

Any1 ever heard of the problem I'm having? Is it because it's somewhat cheap RAM? I got it from Access Micro a while back.

Is there a utility that will look at your RAM and see what the specs of it are, like a WCPUID for memory? (i.e. CAS 2/3, PC100/133, etc.)

 

[SaturnX]

Alrite, well when I had my RAM misreported in the BIOS, i often had many crashes and thus meant defective RAM, though you can use the following utility, it displays whatever data is stored on the RAM's SPD, just scroll down the the download section, and all will be well..
ctSPD

--Mark

 

[obenton]

Make sure the chips are fully seated and that the retention clips are fully closed.

 

[aznmist]

Some mobo reads ram like that. I had a 64 doublesided and it reported 32. I had to get a singel sided 64 to fix the problem..