Wanted: Program that can tell me what chips are on my RAM?

[imported_Gelfling]

I have some ADATA Vitesta DDR500, with heat spreaders that are "glued" to the chips. I have tryied to research whether these are TDDC or Hynix and besically have determied that different batches of this ram used different types of chips. Is ther a program that I can run that will tell me what kind of chips mine are?

Thanks in advance.

 

[phisrow]

To the best of my knowledge, you are absolutely out of luck. Certain details of ram(ECC/Non-ECC, errors(with Memtest), etc.) are visible in software; but there is no way that you can detect the manufacturer of the chips in software. Unlike something like USB peripherals, there is no mechanism for reporting this sort of information(mostly because only overclocker types care, so it has never been built into the standard).
Sorry about the bad news.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Some programs like CPU-Z can give you generic information about the RAM (timings, manufacturer, etc.) but I don't think you'll find anything that can do what you want.

 

[corkyg]

Your best bet is to go to the maker and ask for the detailed specs.

 

[imported_Gelfling]

Thanks for all the replies. The thing is, different chips were used during different production runs, and without ripping the heatsinks off, I won't be able to get any info off the chips themselves. Oh well. Just thought I'd ask.

I didn't think there was anything but thought I'd ask just the same.

 

[bunker]

Give cpu-z a try. I had a stick of pc2700 with no mfg listed on the chips, the pcb said samsung, but not the chips. cpu-z told me they were winbond so it may work.