MB and Memory question

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I have an AOpen MB that occasionally does not report the correct amount of
memory installed. It seems to always detect the first bank but not the other
2 or incorrectly detects those banks. So the question becomes is this a
memory problem (not likely in my reasoning) or a motherboard problem. I have
also read that the CPU could do this but I cannot see how this would be
possible since this comes at a time during the boot process when the BIOS
has not yet handed off the operation to the CPU. Thanks for any help.

BTW this is an AOpen AX-59 Pro with an AMD K6-2 450.

Regards,
John O.
 
John and Pat said:
I have an AOpen MB that occasionally does not report the correct amount of
memory installed. It seems to always detect the first bank but not the other
2 or incorrectly detects those banks. So the question becomes is this a
memory problem (not likely in my reasoning) or a motherboard problem. I have
also read that the CPU could do this but I cannot see how this would be
possible since this comes at a time during the boot process when the BIOS
has not yet handed off the operation to the CPU. Thanks for any help.

BTW this is an AOpen AX-59 Pro with an AMD K6-2 450.

Regards,
John O.
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This is not as rare as you might think! It's just possible that the memory
sticks are mismatched. This is particularly possible if you have upgraded
the RAM of an older machine sometime after the initial build. There is
little you can do I suspect, except swap out suspect sticks until consistent
results are obtained.
 
Mr. Slow said:
This is not as rare as you might think! It's just possible that the memory
sticks are mismatched. This is particularly possible if you have upgraded
the RAM of an older machine sometime after the initial build. There is
little you can do I suspect, except swap out suspect sticks until consistent
results are obtained.
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Thanks for the info. I actually am using a stick of PC100 and a stick of
PC66 (of course I failed to mention that). I am going to pick up another
stick of PC100 and see if the problem is gone. Thanks for the info.

Regards,
John O.
 
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