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by John Morse
Sun Feb 09, 2003 9:52 pm
Forum: General BIOS Questions
Topic: USB Problem, probaly my ancient Bios??
Replies: 3
Views: 2881

USB problem continued... No, I've tried my Lucent PCI-USB card with an Olitec ADSL modem, a Dexxa webcam, and a Sony Datavault USB disk. The root hub properties panel in Win98 says 500mA/port. I'm sure this isn't a power issue. The usb share IRQ11 with PCI steering (whatever that is). Are you SURE t...
by John Morse
Thu Feb 06, 2003 11:23 pm
Forum: General BIOS Questions
Topic: USB Problem, probaly my ancient Bios??
Replies: 3
Views: 2881

USB Problem, probaly my ancient Bios??

I have an old PC with a PCChips M537 board. There is a design error in the VIA chip set (rather, the chips were defined before the final USB 1 revision and don’t work: posted on many bulletin boards). There is no apparent USB support (ie no references to USB) in my 1997 vintage Award Bios. Looked ev...
by John Morse
Tue Jun 25, 2002 3:21 am
Forum: RAM compatibility with BIOS
Topic: 128meg DIMM recognized as 32meg one
Replies: 14
Views: 9872

SIMMs with VXchipset (continued)

[quote="KachiWachi"]...So you are better off finding the 4 SIMMS and installing those. That is what I'm running, and each SIMM (if I remember correctly) contains 16 chips (8 per side). I'm still not sure whether you answered my question regarding the 16Mbit/chip addressing limit. Most 32Mbyte SIMMs ...
by John Morse
Mon Jun 24, 2002 4:25 am
Forum: RAM compatibility with BIOS
Topic: 128meg DIMM recognized as 32meg one
Replies: 14
Views: 9872

Thanks: at least I see this problem is well understood, even if it has no real solution (other than a new motherboard!) The WimsBios FAQ reply says: "The Intel VX doesn't have enough Memory Address lines to drive the higher integration DRAM technology, be it EDO or SDRAM. 16-MBit is the highest dens...
by John Morse
Sat Jun 22, 2002 7:23 pm
Forum: RAM compatibility with BIOS
Topic: 128meg DIMM recognized as 32meg one
Replies: 14
Views: 9872

128Mb recognized as only 32Mb

You said check-out the FAQ for this 'hardware problem' I cannot find it!!