Mint said:
Someone threw out a computer with XP Home Edition.
Other than a missing front cover, everything works.
It is a Compaq Presario SR1303WM.
Speed supported PC2700 DDR SDRAM DIMM
What it has for RAM.
Capacity 128 MBytes
Memory Type DDR (PC2100)
Speed 133 MHz
Capacity 256 MBytes
Memory Type DDR (PC3200)
Speed 200 MHz
I bought another 256 Mb to replace the 128 Mb, but the computer is
only showing 448 Mb of RAM.
Can someone help me?
Thanks,
Andy
The motherboard is ASUS A7V8X-LA, chipset = VIA KM400A / VT8237
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...442&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=447312&lang=en
It accepts up to a 1GB module per slot, according to that page.
You could interpret that to mean that at least a low density 1GB
stick would work. And being VIA, chances are if you used a module
with 128Mx4 chips, it would probably work anyway.
And none of that would have any effect at the 256MB level. A 256MB
stick should work no matter how it's built.
A close equivalent to that motherboard (same Northbridge), would
be the A7V400-MX. I downloaded the manual, for a look.
http://dlcdnas.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/km400a/a7v400-mx/e1817_a7v400-mx.pdf
Section 2.5.1 on page 46, shows there is a setting called
VGA Share Memory Size [16M, 32M, 64M]
If your motherboard was set to 64M, then 512 - 64 = 448.
You could enter the BIOS, and make that setting smaller.
Mike has already mentioned that. The share size would
affect two things. For 3D games, a larger size would help.
And for 2D operations, the 16MB setting should be plenty
for frame buffers. If you dial the shared memory down
to 16, it's possible some 3D games might not like that,
but for web surfing or email it'll be fine.
If you install an AGP video card, that will stop the
sharing, so more of the 512MB will be usable.
Paul