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.
WRONG MEMORY SIMMS OR NOT UPGRADE BIOS?
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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.
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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.
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/downlo ... /65FVB.htm
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 ?
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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
Yesterday my system worked fine (finally) but only with 256mb (and I've got 512mb switched on the motherboard). Thanks
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Yeahhh!!!.. Thanks a lot for the Manual's link!!!.
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My question is:
if I upgrade my Bios...
Could I really resolve the problem?.
if I upgrade my Bios...
Could I really resolve the problem?.
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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
The VIA693 should support 256MBit memory density so a 512MB doublesided with 16 chips should work
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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.