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From: RobinBarsellotti on 25 Jan 2010 22:47
Will this motherboard take a 1Gb of memory in both the A0 and the A1
slot. I am running version 1.6 I think of the BIOS but the machine on
boot will only see 131mb of memory and dxdiag only reports the same.
Have tried swaping over slots but machine at time refuses to boot
without 256 in slot A1. Never flashed a BIOS before so dont want to
screw up my system even if I could locate a newer version of the BIOS
to resolve the memory issue. Help needed please.
From: Jan Alter on 26 Jan 2010 09:37



"RobinBarsellotti" <rcbarse(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Will this motherboard take a 1Gb of memory in both the A0 and the A1
> slot. I am running version 1.6 I think of the BIOS but the machine on
> boot will only see 131mb of memory and dxdiag only reports the same.
> Have tried swaping over slots but machine at time refuses to boot
> without 256 in slot A1. Never flashed a BIOS before so dont want to
> screw up my system even if I could locate a newer version of the BIOS
> to resolve the memory issue. Help needed please.


Tried googling your mb # but got no hits. Tried going to MSI site with mb #
and still got nothing. This is an MSI mb? If not then who is the
manufacturer?

Do you have the manual available to check memory size configuration specs?
If not then can you go to the maker's website to download it and check?

In regards to flashing the bios, it would be worthwhile to at least go to
the maker's site and check to see what newer bioses changed in comparison to
the one that is current on your mb.

--
Jan Alter
bearpuf(a)verizon.net


From: kony on 26 Jan 2010 21:41
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:47:54 -0800 (PST), RobinBarsellotti
<rcbarse(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

>Will this motherboard take a 1Gb of memory in both the A0 and the A1
>slot. I am running version 1.6 I think of the BIOS but the machine on
>boot will only see 131mb of memory and dxdiag only reports the same.
>Have tried swaping over slots but machine at time refuses to boot
>without 256 in slot A1. Never flashed a BIOS before so dont want to
>screw up my system even if I could locate a newer version of the BIOS
>to resolve the memory issue. Help needed please.

Newer BIOS versions seldom (if ever) increase the amount of
memory a board can handle.

Like the previous poster Jan, I did not find any info on
this board. Can you describe it a bit, especially the
(northbridge) chipset it uses?

However, newer bios can sometimes improve compatibility, by
that I mean stability, with certain memory modules including
larger amounts of memory.

There is also a memory density issue, if you use a density
higher than it can support you may only see 1/2, maybe only
1/4th the total memory, but your 131MB number is very
strange to see, are you or the software you use to see this
figure possibly rounding it off in some unusual way to come
to a 131MB figure?

More system details might help including age of system and
CPU type... these details won't necessarily allow a
definitive answer like the chipset would, but would at least
narrow the search/possibilities a bit... and you didn't
even mention the type or specific memory you're trying to
use.

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