motherboard/ ram problem

VERT · January 20th, 2003, 10:22 PM

A freind of mine has a Celeron 600 PC and has just got more ram for it. The existing ram it had was 64mb PC100, she has gotten 2 x 128mb PC133 ram for it (she was recomended this by a shop). Upon installing the ram the bios only reads the ram as 64mb. I have tried the different ram slots, fiddled around with the bios, but it still will only read the ram as 64mb.

Now the difficult part was identifying the mobo as there was completely no labling on it aside from the chipset which is VT82C5968, I believe that is a VIA chipset. The mobo has 1 AGP, 1 ISA, 3 PCI and 2 Dimm, currently has a socket celeron 600 cpu.

jerrygarcia · January 20th, 2003, 10:32 PM

Can you read the bios string on the bottom of the first boot screen? Or, try www.belarc.com

Wizzard~Of~Ozz · January 20th, 2003, 10:32 PM

64Mb each or total? if it's 64Mb each then chances are the motherboard isn't compatible with that Memory (double sided would be needed)

jerrygarcia · January 20th, 2003, 10:39 PM

Try the free download from Belarc to see if it identifies your board.

VERT · January 20th, 2003, 10:45 PM

yeah i forgot about belarc, I will be going over to her house in a couple of hours so will try then,

64mb in total

Wizzard~Of~Ozz · January 20th, 2003, 10:48 PM

http://www.epox.nl/manuals/v370y.pdf

Could this be it?

Also, you did clear the Cmos after you installed them memory right?

VERT · January 21st, 2003, 02:07 AM

Belarc tells me that it is a VIA VT82C692BX

KenKun · January 21st, 2003, 02:12 AM

What about SiSoft Sandra? did you try to let it detect your MoBo and BIOS versions?

http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/

You know that Sandra does a decent job in identifying almost anything in your case..

VERT · January 21st, 2003, 02:21 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Wizzard~Of~Ozz
http://www.epox.nl/manuals/v370y.pdf

Could this be it?

Also, you did clear the Cmos after you installed them memory right?

this is almost exactly the same mobo except the JP1 (clear cmos) jumper is in a different place. I have cleared the cmos, this makes no difference.

VERT · January 21st, 2003, 02:41 AM

sandra says the motherboard is a 692-596-8671

not very useful

manufactuer says it is an AST