RAM upgrade on netvista mt 6578-RBA

[cabledguy]

Hi All

Got a pIII 933 netvista. I want to use it with VMware. It takes 512 mb of 133 RAM quite happily but when I tried two extra 256 mb sticks it won't count them over.

Is this the RAM I'm feeding it or a limitation of the chipset and is there any way around it?

 

[Flinx]

<A HREF="http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=netvista&uid=psg1MIGR-4PJHUB&loc=en_CA&cs=utf-8&cc=ca&lang=en" target="_new">http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=netvista&uid=psg1MIGR-4PJHUB&loc=en_CA&cs=utf-8&cc=ca&lang=en</A>

Says:

Fill each system memory connector sequentially, starting at DIMM 0.
Use 3.3 V, 133 MHz, unbuffered, SDRAM non-parity DIMMs.
Use only 64, 128 or 256 MB DIMMs in any combination.

How many slots on the board?

What operating system?


What do you mean, won't count them over? Memory check on boot?

You might try installing SiSoft Sandra or Aida32 to see if the memory is there.

Is this your machine?
<A HREF="http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=netvista+6578&uid=psg1MIGR-50563&loc=en_CA&cs=utf-8&cc=ca&lang=en" target="_new">http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=netvista+6578&uid=psg1MIGR-50563&loc=en_CA&cs=utf-8&cc=ca&lang=en</A>
If so then you have only two slots with a max of 256 each (of the right kind of 256 probably)

The loving are the daring!

 

[cabledguy]

I must have a model variation on that - it has four slots. I was trying 4 x 256.
The board was counting it over in the post.

 

[Crashman]

Is it an 810E or 815 chipset? Those had a 512MB limit, Intel placed upon them purposely in order to force people into buying 820/840 chipset boards.

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