Ram upgrade not working, BIOS?

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by **Knuts** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 7:37 am

I am running a PCchips 572 board which has 4 simm slots and 2 dimm slots. I've been running 64 MBs of ramm in the simm slots 16 MB a piece. Purchased 128MB dimm popped it in took old out and nothing happened. Took one 128MB and still nothing. Blank screen death no CMOS boot no nothing. Did the hookie pokie and switched the ram around still nothing.

The manual says should be able to run 256MB in the Dimm slots. The AMI utitity gave me this number
51-0630-001437-071595-572
I think I'm running the Intel 430 TX chipset. Man I need to buy a vowel here.

by **soupy** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 4:37 am

Did you take the SIMMs out first? How many chips on the DIMMs?

by **Knuts** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 5:57 pm

Took out the simms before install. There's 16 chips on the ramm. Found a formula posted on this website? said (MB*8)/chips = something. Anyway came up with 64 somethings and Mainboard says it should handle 64 somethings (Mbits I think).

by **soupy** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 7:57 pm

What is JP5 (DIMM voltage) set to? Do you have the latest BIOS?

by **Knuts** » Sat Apr 06, 2002 2:23 am

First off thanks for the reply!

JP5 is set to 3.3 volts which is what the ram is. Probably don't have the latest BIOS. It's about 3 years old which is when I replaced the MOBO. Do you check the version by looking in the left hand corner on boot up? I'm a little

freaked out when it comes to updating BIOS. Not real computer literate.

One other question. If in my frustration I put the SIMMS and the DIMMS in at the same time would it damage anything?

by **soupy** » Sat Apr 06, 2002 6:07 am

You should not mix SIMMs and DIMMs, no.

You can get the latest BIOS through the PcChips links on our Manufacturer's page.

by **Knuts** » Sun Apr 07, 2002 3:00 pm

One last post... Had a succesful BIOS update. Plugged ram in and I can hear things running up till the tick sound at the ram check but nothing on the screen. Starting to suspect maybe vid-card needs old funky ram. Thanx for the help, I'm thinking I'll just stick with the old RAM. My next upgrade is going to be a hammer to the MOBO!