19 Jul 2003, 23:46, THURSTON ACKERMAN (1:123/140), wrote to ALL:

Hi THURSTON.

 TA> Recently removed the two 128MB (16x840) PC133M
 TA> KBYTE 12 50319 RAM DIMMs from slots 1&2 in my
 TA> System Tiger 970533 1.8gHz P4, 400 mHz Bus speed
 TA> computer with Windows 98se O/S, which "Systems
 TA> Properies" correctly reported as 256MB total RAM

 TA> and installed a new RK-Byte 256MB-DDR PC2100
 TA> and a new Kingston-PC21000DDR/256MB RAM sticks
 TA> in the 184 DIMM slots;

 TA> which unfortunely "System Properies" only
 TA> reports as a total of 480MB instead of the
 TA> anticipated 512MB total RAM when booted ON

Hmmm...  Missing 32M

 TA> Installed singly in slot 3 or slot 4,each
 TA> only reports as 224MB

Missing 32M each individually, and yet only 32M for the pair...

 TA> What hocus pocus foreplay am I missing please?

Is there any CMOS setting that could have been 'upset'/'reset' that would
reserve 32M for your video?

Does the manual reference anything associated with using slots 3&4
reserving any amount for 'hardware cache' or any such thing?

Are there any hardware jumpers or CMOS settings that are not automatic when
switching from slots 1&2 to slots 3&4, or when changing from SDRAM
to DDR RAM?

Check the manual closely for any and all 'footnotes', '*', and all the
"fine print".

Not much help for sure, but will keep the content alive for another round...
    

     Good luck...  M.

--- Msged/386 TE 06 (pre)