First post, by Frunzl
Hi,
to all SI5PI AIO owners: has anyone ever successfully installed 128 mb ram in this board?
In my case, the ram is correctly identified in the BIOS and during the initial memory test, no problem. Even in the "system configurations" table, which appears briefly before loading the OS, it correctly shows 128 mb.
However, once in Win98 or DOS, only 64 MB are visible to the system. Cachechk and speedsys also only report 64 MB (see screenshots below, sorry for the blurriness).
I figured, it may have to do with the L2 cache size (I have 512k) and cachable ram amount, but disabling the cache altogether doesn't have any impact.
I also read about this exact same issue with this board several times already, and someone even maxed out the cache at 2 MB, but that didn't help. I tried many different ram sticks, some with ECC, some without, some FPM, some EDO. I tried all available BIOS versions.. no change whatsoever either.
Right now, I am all out of ideas... If anyone knows, what may be the cause, I would be delighted to know 😀