Installing new RAM in eMachines T1220 not seen...

Is your memory not fully recognized? (Intel VX chipset Memory recognition)
Post Reply
Nemy
New visitors - please read the rules.
Posts: 4
Joined: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:55 am

Hi there,

I'm trying to upgrade the RAM in my eMachines T1220 from 128MB to 384MB total. I bought a new stick of 256MB Pc133MHz SDRAM (32x8) and it is not seen at post or in windows. I tried to put it in by itself and I get the typical beep code. here is what my mob/bios info is:

Your BIOS Agent Results:
BIOS ID: 71481.EM.0000.D.0208091418
OEM Sign-On: None
BIOS Date: 08/09/02
BIOS Type: Phoenix
Chipset: Intel Whitney 82810E rev 3
Super I/O: Unknown
OS: WinXP SP2
BIOS ROM Socket: No
BIOS ROM Size: 512K
Memory Installed: 128 MB
Memory Max: 512 MB
CPU: Pentium(R) III 1200 Mhz MAX: 1600 Mhz


BTW, my CPU is not a PIII, it is a Celeron @ 1.2GHz.

I am curently trying o find a BIOS update. I've had these of problems with older IBM's and a simple BIOS update fixed my problems.

Thanks for your help.
Nemy
New visitors - please read the rules.
Posts: 4
Joined: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:55 am

Here is what CPU-Z says...

DIMM #1

General
Memory type SDRAM
Manufacturer (ID) (0000000000000000)
Size 128 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC133 (133 MHz)
Part number
Manufacturing date Week 00/Year 00

Attributes
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 100 133
CAS# 2.0 3.0
RAS# to CAS# delay 2 3
RAS# Precharge 2 3
TRAS# 5 6


DIMM #2

General
Memory type SDRAM
Manufacturer (ID) (0000000000000000)
Size 256 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC133 (133 MHz)
Part number
Manufacturing date Week 00/Year 00

Attributes
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 133
CAS# 3.0
RAS# to CAS# delay 3
RAS# Precharge 3
TRAS# 6


Dump Module #1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 80 08 04 0C 0A 01 40 00 01 75 54 00 80 08 00 01
10 8F 04 06 01 01 00 0E A0 60 00 00 14 0F 14 2D 20
20 15 08 15 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 AF
40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 64 F6


Dump Module #2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 80 08 04 0D 0A 01 40 00 01 75 54 00 82 08 00 01
10 8F 04 04 01 01 00 0E A0 60 00 00 14 0F 14 2C 40
20 15 08 15 08 00 00 00 00 00 42 00 00 00 00 00 00
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 0F
40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 64 FD



So, it sees all my RAM sooo, now what???
It must be a BIOS upgrade needed for sure, right?
Denniss
BIOS Guru
Posts: 3153
Joined: Thu Mar 21, 2002 8:16 pm
Location: Near Hannover (CEBIT) Germany
Contact:

The i810 chipset has some limitations what memory chips it supports. AFAIK it has the same limitation as the i440BX, max 256Mb per stick, a 256MB stick must be double sided with 16 memory chip and 8x16 internal organisation.
32x8 sounds like 8-chip stick
Nemy
New visitors - please read the rules.
Posts: 4
Joined: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:55 am

Yeah, the 256MB stick only has chips on the one side and has a total of 8 chips.
The original 128 also has only 8 chips on the one side but does not say what it's config is, like 16x8 or whatever. Only says PC133 SDRAM :(

So I guess I should return this memory and get a double sided stick?
This is a single sided :(

P.S. The only marking on the original stick is "TwinMOS PC 133 128MB SDR/CL3"
Nemy
New visitors - please read the rules.
Posts: 4
Joined: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:55 am

Well, I just tried two sticks of SDRAM PC100 (16x64) and they work.
I'm still looking for a solution to this problem with my 256MB stick.

Thanks
Post Reply