Comp wont accept 128 Mb stick

[CompFX]

I have two DIMM slots. Each has a 64 meg stick in it. I bought a 128 meg stick to put in a slot. But my comp is not accepting it. I dont know what the limit of my MB is, but i am sure it is higher the 128. I have tried the 128 in slot 1 with a 64 in slot two. then vise versa, then the 128 by itself in both slots, The comp hangs just after the bios splash screen. All three sticks are PC 100. Dont know of any reason why it hangs. I would really like for this to work because my 8 month old chewed the recept to an illegable spit ball.

[o770]

does the stick work in another computer?

[looktall]

what mobo is it?

[Maximouse]

Check the motherboard manual to see if it supports 128 meg sticks. I have an MSI that wont allow a stick of that size, (it would accept 64, 256 0r 512 only) but my ECS board would take them.

[CompFX]

No other computer to test it in.

Let me refrase what i said before, as i was half sleeping when i posted it. It boots up to windows. I am running Win2k, it goes though the black screen with the little bars at the bottom, then it goes through the GUI screen with the blue scrooling across the screen, but as soon as it hits the screen that i would enter me password, it flashes what looks like a BSOD, and reboots. dont know what it says because it is only a flash.

Possible a bad stick of ram? Have not had the chance to try booting into RedHat Linux, but will try soon.

Why would windows crash because of the 128 Meg stick?

[CompFX]

Sorry, forgot to post MB.

It is an Intel Type RC440BX

Here are a few numbers that are printed INTO the board.

PB 717349-002

MV07

V-0

4398 <- this is the date i am guessing.

[Maximouse]

I did a search for your board.

Found out it does accept 128 meg sticks.

Check the memory settings in your bios, see if you can relax them abit.

If that does not work, then maybe that stick is bad.

[CompFX]

I downloaded the users manual, and the ram is ok for the board. In the bios, it comes up as 192 megs with the 128 and 64 meg sticks in.

So i cant imagine why it would boot to a certain point then have windows reboot the machine.

I also try to boot to RedHat and it got stuck in the command prompt part of booting up. it said somehting about stack and a whole crap load of numbers. I think they were mem numbers. So the stick could very well be a bad stick, but i just pulled it out the friggen package.

[ThePunkGeek]

i heard the Intel boards only accepts some cetain type of ram.

[Maximouse]

Originally posted by CompFX
I downloaded the users manual, and the ram is ok for the board. In the bios, it comes up as 192 megs with the 128 and 64 meg sticks in.

So i cant imagine why it would boot to a certain point then have windows reboot the machine.

I also try to boot to RedHat and it got stuck in the command prompt part of booting up. it said somehting about stack and a whole crap load of numbers. I think they were mem numbers. So the stick could very well be a bad stick, but i just pulled it out the friggen package.

Ok, is there anything in your bios about memory settings? can you set it to run by SPD? Can you change the latency (Higher number means more relaxed settings eg cas2 cas3). some have a turbo/ 8-10ns setting. Maybe the stick you are adding needs the slower setting.

[CompFX]

i cant do squat in my bios with the mem. It tells me exactly what i have, and its settings, but wont let me alter them in any way. I have the latest BIOS that i can get too.

i am off to bed now, but when i reboot, ill write down everything the bios says bout the mem

[Maximouse]

Could be set by jumpers

[CompFX]

There are very, very few jumpers on the MB. And none of them apply to the ram.

[CompFX]

It is true that PC100 ram, when held with gold pins down, the black chips go up and down, and that the PC133 the back chips run left and right?

If so then that is probably my problem. Because that is the only difference between the physical aspects of the ram sticks.