From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@btinternet.com>
Cc: "'Benny Sjostrand'" <gorm@cucumelo.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 512 Mb DIMM not detected by the BIOS!
Date: 07 Feb 2002 03:48:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1u1st600f.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c1ac30$2ed408a0$0100a8c0@stratus>
In-Reply-To: <000001c1ac30$2ed408a0$0100a8c0@stratus>
"Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@btinternet.com> writes:
> Hey Benny,
>
> This is a chipset problem. Chipsets support up to x CAS (column) lines
> and y RAS (row) lines, and depending on your DIMM memory module layout
> and configuration, you 512MB DIMM will be detected as a different sized
> module.
>
> Eg. The venerable Intel 440BX (PII) chipset supports a max of 256MB per
> slot. Ah well.
>
> Since it's a chipset (ie hardware) issue, it's not possible to work
> around this problem - you need a newer chipset. Sorry.
Additionally memory is generally and practically a setup once thing in
every chipset I have looked at. Even if the chipsets supports it
would be very difficult ``fix'' this afterwards.
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-07 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-02 23:55 512 Mb DIMM not detected by the BIOS! Benny Sjostrand
2002-02-02 18:18 ` Kilobug
2002-02-02 21:25 ` Daniel J Blueman
2002-02-04 11:17 ` Wojtek Pilorz
2002-02-05 6:59 ` Cliff Albert
2002-02-06 16:20 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-07 10:48 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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