over 160mb on compaq presario 1260/similar?

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Hi all,

Been offered a Presario 1260. Was wondering if it's possible to get the
system to use more than 160MB - I know the limit is quoted everywhere
on Compaq materials, but was wondering if it's an issue with
official support, BIOS reporting (which you can force some OSs to ignore),
or a physical chipset/motherboard ceiling.

I expect the answer is the same for all Presario models of a similar era,
ie 333-600MHz 12XX.

Thanks,

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Tom Garcia | tgarcia-ng@hivemind.NOSPAMTHX.org

 

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Tom,
Nope. 160 is it for the 1260. 32MB soldered and a single SODIMM slot that
will accept a 32-128MB SDRAM SODIMM. Most likely a chipset memory controller
limit on that model.
HH

"Tom Garcia" <tgarcia@hivemind.NOSPAMTHX.org> wrote in message
news😛an.2004.07.25.11.04.36.664712@hivemind.NOSPAMTHX.org...
> Hi all,
>
> Been offered a Presario 1260. Was wondering if it's possible to get the
> system to use more than 160MB - I know the limit is quoted everywhere
> on Compaq materials, but was wondering if it's an issue with
> official support, BIOS reporting (which you can force some OSs to ignore),
> or a physical chipset/motherboard ceiling.
>
> I expect the answer is the same for all Presario models of a similar era,
> ie 333-600MHz 12XX.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Tom Garcia | tgarcia-ng@hivemind.NOSPAMTHX.org
>