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Another Ram Question

  • 05-04-2006 2:08pm
    #1
    Chrissy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭


    I have a HP PC at home.
    It's a PIII, 500Mhz PC.

    It has 2 slots for SDRam & these have 2 64MB chips it them.

    I was testing 2x256MB chips in it last night & realised that the PC has a limited max ram of 256MB (i.e. 128 in each slot)

    My question is:- what controls this limit?
    Is it the bios & if so, if I get a bios upgrade will it up the max limit so I could take full advantage of the 2x256MB chips?

    Or is this hardwired in the motherboard, or something?

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    It should be able to take more than that O_o
    It could be that they are both double-sided modules (or one is double-sided), and the pc can only take 2 or 3 sides worth, because it interperets each side as a "bank". I had a similar problem on my PIII system - it had three slots, but I couldn't put more than 2 sticks if one was double-sided.


  • #3
    Chrissy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Chrissy


    Thanks Zilog, but no:- both are single sided (& there's only 2 slots in the PC)

    Anyone any answer to my original question:- What on the PC controls what the maximum Ram supported is?


  • #4
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    Chrissy wrote:
    Anyone any answer to my original question:- What on the PC controls what the maximum Ram supported is?
    The chipset


  • #5
    Chrissy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Chrissy


    SickBoy wrote:
    The chipset

    Thanks SickBoy

    Can this be upgraded in any way so that I can increase the max ram supported?


  • #6
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Chrissy wrote:
    Thanks SickBoy

    Can this be upgraded in any way so that I can increase the max ram supported?

    Bar replacing the motherboard with a later model - the answer is no.


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  • #7
    Chrissy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Chrissy


    Thanks 8T8


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