[PLUG] OT: SDRAM scam?

Terry Griffin griffint at pobox.com
Wed May 28 22:19:02 UTC 2003


I doubt the bad chip idea. Going four-for-four with one bad chip each seems
highly unlikely.

The chipset is Intel 440BX. Anyone happen to know what densities that would
support?

Terry

On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:47 pm, Devon Holcombe wrote:
> These are likely sdram modules with higher density dram chips. If the
> motherboard chipset was designed only to read or be compatible with lower
> density dram chips, it will indeed only recognize half the ram when you
> insert a module with higher desnity dram chips. Also if one of the dram
> chips is bad and your motherboard detects this it may disable half the ram
> so as to preserve stability and not access the part of the ram module that
> is bad. There are multiple reasons why you could see only 128 megs of a 256
> meg chip.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Galen Seitz" <galens at seitzassoc.com>
> To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] OT: SDRAM scam?
>
> > I installed one of the suspect parts in a second PC that has a completely
> > different motherboard. It also only saw only 128MB. I installed a known
> > 256MB module from the second PC in to the first PC, and it saw 256MB.
> > This all reinforces my belief that the claimed 256MB modules are really
> > 128MB modules. Technologically speaking, is there a chance in hell my
> > belief could be wrong?
>
> Post the complete part number of the SDRAM devices, and their quantity.
> With that info we can calculate the size of the module.
>
> galen
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