First post, by Gahhhrrrlic
I bought 2 sticks of 256MB CL2 PC133 RAM for my Celeron 700 machine using a VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset and it's reporting 256MB. I thought ok maybe one of the slots doesn't work so I swapped them around and no change. Then I thought one of the sticks was bad so I tried them separately and they always detect but only at half the amount. So basically it won't see more than half of whatever I put in there. This didn't happen for different RAM, just this RAM. I was disinclined to believe that the RAM was labelled wrong because the modules themselves have a 32 in the code and there are 8 modules so the math works out (8x32 = 256). Plus it's MemoryX and I think they're a pretty good source right?
Anyway could this be the BIOS doing this? Would flashing a newer version help? What do you think?