> The odd thing was that it depended on which memory slot held which piece.
In
> one order, the machine only saw 288MB, as if there were two 128MB pieces
> (plus the built-in 32MB). When I switched the memory parts around, the
> machine saw all 416MB and it worked completely reliably. I used that
machine
> to set up a number of VMware virtual machines, which really pounds on
memory.
I have an idea as to why this might be happening. The 440BX chipset that the
600 series uses, can only seem to handle 256MB sticks with 16 chips, this
also means that each 256MB stick uses 2 banks. The 440BX can handle 2 banks
per memory slot. I think that the 600 might have one of the memory slots
shared with the onboard memory. So only one of the two slots can accept a
256MB stick properly.
>From what I've read on google's news archives, the 600 and 600e have no
problems with 128MB PC100 memory, but 256MB sticks have to be of a certain
type (2 banks, 16 chips) and even then, there's problems like the above.
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