do i need a bios upgrade?

[inode]

Hi!

I have a PIII 600B/133 with a i440BX motherboard, award bios (see below bios data) and i'm trying to use a Kingston 512MB PC133 with 16 chips but I only get 256MB. I believe this is a well know problem that has to do with the motherboard(?) and/or the bios(?) not supporting high density memory chips. The question is: upgrading the bios may do any good?

Regards,

LRC
lcorreia@teia.pt

BIOS DATA (obtained by "Bios Agent - ba.exe):

BIOS Date: 06/14/00
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 06/14/2000-i440BX-W977-2A69KM4KC
BIOS Eval: W6163MJ V5.3 061400
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3

[Denniss]

Chipset limitation .
Max supported memory is 256MB per stick .
You need a 256 stick looking like your 512 but with 256MB .
Doublesided with 8 chips per side .

BTW you seem to have a MSI BX-Master mainboard

[inode]

thx dennis... so if the problem lies at chipset level there's no real good on upgrading the bios, i bet! I'll try to exchange the dimm

BTW: you're rigth about the mobo brand and model.

regards,