[ltp] thinkpad memory problems

Andrew Gaffney linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:57:43 -0600


The weird thing was that the mobo recognized it, but didn't want to use all of it.

Lars Burgess wrote:
> Yeah who knows, some motherboards are strange when it comes to
> recognizing dimms.
> 
> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 13:42, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> 
>>I switched it to the other slot and the entire thing showed up. Weird.
>>
>>Lars Burgess wrote:
>>
>>>Are you sure you got the same speed ram as what you currently have
>>>installed? If not, did you check that your new ram is backwards
>>>compatible w/ lower speed ram? Maybe try switching the dimms and see if
>>>that shows anything different.
>>>
>>>On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 13:25, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've got a Thinkpad 770 that I just bought a Kingston 128MB upgrade module for. When I put 
>>>>it in and go into the CMOS setup, it reports that there is 163840KB installed but only 
>>>>97728KB available. Can anyone tell me why?

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