Hi Luvers, I have a rather old MSI amd-am2 cpu motherboard which was originally rated to take max 2gb ram. However there are reports on the web that it can actually take 4 gb, but I can't work out if it is exactly the same motherboard or a later revision (same model number) - it looks the same in photos though. There are no bios upgrade that I can find neither. My guess is that when it was first released, 2gb ddr2 ram sticks did not exist, so it was rated to 2gb max (ie 2 x 1gb sticks). Would that make sense? (we are talking around 2007?) One way to find out is to try! Any one has 1 (or preferably 2 matching) 2gb ddr2 ram sticks that I can borrow please? Thanks in advance. Daniel.
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:10:17 Daniel J Jitnah wrote:
One way to find out is to try! Any one has 1 (or preferably 2 matching) 2gb ddr2 ram sticks that I can borrow please?
The hardware library has run out of DDR2 and DDR3 DIMMs. If anyone has some spare DIMMs to donate then that would be really appreciated. I can give you a DIMM from one of my systems at the next meeting, or maybe even 2 DIMMs. If the 2G DIMMs work in that system can you give me the 1G DIMMs? As an aside, you might want to Google the chipset to see what it supports. Lots of Intel systems running the AMD64 architecture don't support 4G of RAM, they support 4G of address space for RAM and PCI which means about 3.25G of usable RAM. AMD isn't so bad in that regard. Unfortunately I only have 1 spare AMD64 system, if I had more then I'd just give you a system that is known to support 3.25G of RAM. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
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