WRONG MEMORY SIMMS OR NOT UPGRADE BIOS?

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by **caligula2003** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 5:51 pm

Hello.
I need a little help 'cos I bought 2 memory SIMMS type PC133 (Pentium III 450Hz) yesterday and I put inside a 'unknown' Zoltrex motherboard (anybody knows it?) and I've have a lot of problems today 'cos I reboot my system and sometimes it works fine, and sometimes do not.
Why? Any Bios problems? Why anytimes can I reebot with all capacity and anytimes do I not reboot?
Thanks a lot.

by **NickS** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 6:44 pm

If you want us to have a clue about the motherboard, you need to give us more information - use BIOS agent and tell us what it says. Do you not have a manual ?

by **caligula2003** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 8:59 am

I have not. I lost all manuals and I don't know why. Tomorrow I will send you all the information about my motherboard. Now I'm at work and I can't. Thanks a lot.

by **caligula2003** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:43 pm

My Mem SIMMS are Hynix (type PC133U-333-542), there are a lot of serial numbers on these HY57V56820BT-H; HYM72V32636BT8-H, also 250A, AA-A and CL3. My BIOS Manufacturer is Award and the serial number is 08/25/2000-693-596-W977-2A6LG-SNPC-00 (it seems Soltek). Thanks a lot.

by **NickS** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 3:10 pm

Google search turns up an ID at plasma-online.de - Soltek SL-65FVB. You should be able to find a manual at http://www.soltek.com.tw/English/download/main/65FVB.htm

by **NickS** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 3:52 pm

HY57V56820BT-H is a 32Mx8b chip, so if there are 16 on the module it should be a 512MB module. If you can sometimes see full capacity, that suggests that there's a timing/chipset/RAM problem. You could try running it with slower RAM timing - are you using "Auto" or "SPD" settings ?

by **caligula2003** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 9:01 am

No, I can't see full capacity now. I only see 128mb ram of each one.
Yesterday my system worked fine (finally) but only with 256mb (and I've got 512mb switched on the motherboard). Thanks

by **caligula2003** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 9:02 am

Yeahhh!!!.. Thanks a lot for the Manual's link!!!.

by **caligula2003** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 9:10 am

My question is:
if I upgrade my Bios...
Could I really resolve the problem?.

by **Denniss** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 1:27 pm

A Bios Upgrade might help but it's possible it's a Hardware limitation due to some non-standard memory layout on your DIMM
The VIA693 should support 256MBit memory density so a 512MB doublesided with 16 chips should work

by **caligula2003** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 2:11 pm

the truth is that I've always tought that it's a hardware problem, but I read in some site that the bios has the fault.