Bh-6

thralldad · Jan 4, 2003

Finally got my BH-6 up and running.Right now I have a Celly 500 on a generic adapter card,OEM hs and fan,16M AGP,.2 18G SCSI HDS.Win98SE.

Only prob is I'm only seeing 128M of memory. I just stepped up to Kingston PC133/256M.

Did I miss something or am I going to have to flash the BIOS?

TIA;Paul

thralldad · Jan 7, 2003

Anyone?

Jirnsum · Jan 7, 2003

How much memory does your BIOS report? I could not find any BIOS revisions to support more memory. That is, it seems that the board always supported 768MB memory, so that should be enough

There were some issues with incorrect memory reporting unde Linux, but as you are using Win98 that can't be it

Try swapping the memory around. One of your sticks might not be seated correctly. Or one of the sticks is bad. Try running with only one of them.

thralldad · Jan 7, 2003

I have 1 stick of memory. I had a stick of OEM 256M and only showed 131M @ bootup. I thought the memory was bad so I took it back and got namebrand. This board is V1.02 and the manual states that each slot accepts up to 256M! I've tried all slots and it's the same! I'm confused!

Jirnsum · Jan 7, 2003

Any way you could test the stick? Although I do agree that it is strange that you receive the same error twice....

thralldad · Jan 8, 2003

When I returned the OEM stick they checked it and it showed 256M.They said the "value" ram got returned for similar issues ,suggesting my board may be finicky about RAM. I read a lot of profiles with the same board and generic RAM ;no probs!That's why I bought Abit!!

Jirnsum · Jan 9, 2003

It indeed sounds like a problem with your board now. I'd say RMA it...

reefer · Jan 11, 2003

hi,

how many chip does the it have?
if its 8 chips then its high density,
which the BH6 doesn't support

i had the same problems when i
brought RAM recently,and it was
being detected half the amount
because it was high density

damn abit for their sucky support,
they could just updated the BIOS

Jirnsum · Jan 11, 2003

Hmm, that's weird indeed reefer....strange prob

reefer · Jan 13, 2003

hi Jirnsum,

no,

its not weird at all,bh6 can't support
high density sdram without a bios update

Jirnsum · Jan 13, 2003

I understand. I should rephrase: it is a bummer

However, I understand it can be fixed with a BIOS update right?

reefer · Jan 14, 2003

yeah,but the last bios upadte for bh6
was like over two and half years ago...
so don't hold your breath

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