(A series of edits)
Okay, so scratch all that.. it may have actually been related to skipping slots 1, 2
I have 512mb in it now 4x 128 in banks 1-4 and it boots just fine.. 🤔
In fact it seems to be working fine with 768mb now in slots 1-6 but the last time I tried that it gave me 600 something mb
Weird. I have updated the bios since then...
It seems unstable again. I’m gonna see if I can make it far enough to run mem test in windows. I’m curious if I can fill up the ram before it crashes..
Having issues transfering memtest to the computer 🤣 oh well, I give up on that.
I can’t decide if I should try some registered memory or give up? Maybe it would work if it was regestered?
Edit: okay. So the issue I’ve been having getting operating systems on this conputer seems to be two prong, or at least this is the current theory.
The motherboard first time I tried this ram only liked 768mb in slots 3-8 but now it likes it in slots 1-6 but turns out neither are stable. Now I’m not sure if that is because of the chipset not being able to be stable with 768 or if that is because it needs buffered ram to run that many modules.🤷♂️ But I’m guessing the bios update helped cause before it didn’t like the first two slots.
Oh well. 512mb seems fine for now and the registered idea will cost me a lot of money to try... maybe I will try it but I suspect it won’t work. No chance any of you guys have a pile of 128mb registered simms laying around and a tyan tomcat s1564?