Memory Limits

[Rraven]

Chai I'm going mainly off the small amount of info I have been able to find concerning his MB. In trying to help him out we have found very little info on it other than it was put together by Samsung or a 3rd party for them to use in his system.

Have been unable to find any info concerning drivers for it or any kind of a bios update, Even from Samsung, I emailed them and not gotten a response.

He's free to try it and see if he can read the bios using one of the flash programs. As you probably remember not all manufacturers supported on board flashing of the bios. But you as well as others here know the dangers involved in doing so. Based on the physical limitations of the MB, he is still not going to be able to do what he desires to with it.

[Adrian Wong]

Hey Rraven! That's a good point. I totally forgot about the different signalling voltages.

Thanks and +rep!!

[Rraven]

Thank you sir.

[martypastor]

Thanks all for the replies.
Sorry for the delay.
But i have a question. Lets say i put 2 512MB RAM (1024MB of SDRAM) on the 2 slots of my main board., and the limit of the chipset for the RAM is 512MB, what will happen?
-It will show up 512MB and occupy 512MB only of my SDRAM?

Also
This( Chipset) might be the reason why my video card is just 64MB in Video Memory than showing up 128MB of Video Memory because i put my card in a AGP 4x slot than in a AGP 8x slot.
(Video card: Winfast A180BT ? NVIDIA GeForce MX4000 128MB DDR AGP 8x)
Remember that the PC is made in KOREA
And about the bios update
-One day i've contacted Samsung Electronics in Korea abot the BIOS update for my computer (MA10) and they said that 6.00 OORS is the latest version and that is in my computer.

Now the problem that caused my card to run at 64MB of video mem. running at AGP 4x than running at 128MB DDR at AGP 8x.

And in conclusion that i cant upgrade to P4 and no adjusting mem limits of the RAM?

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by martypastor

Thanks all for the replies.
Sorry for the delay.
But i have a question. Lets say i put 2 512MB RAM (1024MB of SDRAM) on the 2 slots of my main board., and the limit of the chipset for the RAM is 512MB, what will happen?
-It will show up 512MB and occupy 512MB only of my SDRAM?

Also
This( Chipset) might be the reason why my video card is just 64MB in Video Memory than showing up 128MB of Video Memory because i put my card in a AGP 4x slot than in a AGP 8x slot.
(Video card: Winfast A180BT ? NVIDIA GeForce MX4000 128MB DDR AGP 8x)
Remember that the PC is made in KOREA
And about the bios update
-One day i've contacted Samsung Electronics in Korea abot the BIOS update for my computer (MA10) and they said that 6.00 OORS is the latest version and that is in my computer.

Now the problem that caused my card to run at 64MB of video mem. running at AGP 4x than running at 128MB DDR at AGP 8x.

And in conclusion that i cant upgrade to P4 and no adjusting mem limits of the RAM?

No, the chipset supports more than just 512MB. It should work fine. You might want to update the BIOS just in case.

No, the chipset doesn't restrict the amount of graphics card in your graphics card. You are probably looking at the AGP aperture setting in the BIOS. That is not the amount of graphics memory available. See here - Tech ARP - AGP Aperture Size

[martypastor]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

No, the chipset supports more than just 512MB. It should work fine. You might want to update the BIOS just in case.

No, the chipset doesn't restrict the amount of graphics card in your graphics card. You are probably looking at the AGP aperture setting in the BIOS. That is not the amount of graphics memory available. See here - Tech ARP - AGP Aperture Size

-So i can increase the size of my RAM over 512MB to 1024MB or more than of that.
(TUNING TO VIDEO CARD PROBLEMS)
AND IT HAS ALSO CONNECTIONS WITH THE TOPIC
-But the problem of my card is this;
My card is Winfast A180BT (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000) at 128MB AGP8x, I've used this many times on my old computers (AMD Processor Custom Builted Computer) running at 128MB AGP8x and works all fine but when i transferred this on this computer (Samsung MA10 Intel Processor) It works well and fine at 128 MB at AGP8x but after months the BSOD Error came saying "Parameter is incorrect" if i'm not mistaken, then the screen blurs and makes lines but the mem of the graphics is showing to 128MB and ive tried to reinstall this video card driver and cleaned dirty stuff by brushing and after by doing this many times and after OS reinstallation all it went to 64MB at AGP4x. Ive tried to clean and reinstall drivers but no luck.
Is htere any way to bring it back to 128MB of video memory but the video 3d texture mem is 128MB.
But still i want to fix the video mem irregularity.
If so what way or anything else.
Thanks

[Adrian Wong]

Where did you see it dropping to just 64MB??

[Rraven]

The Intel 815 chipset will only support 512k of memory.

Intel® 815 and 815E Chipsets for Embedded Computing - Overview

Not trying to be a pain in the rear about it, but..

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Rraven

The Intel 815 chipset will only support 512k of memory.

Intel® 815 and 815E Chipsets for Embedded Computing - Overview

Not trying to be a pain in the rear about it, but..

Hey, you are right! The entire Intel 815 chipset family supports only 512MB. So, martypastor, that's really bad luck. Your motherboard cannot support more than 512MB.

+rep, Rraven!

[martypastor]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Where did you see it dropping to just 64MB??

From POST (BOOT from starting of the computer) and to Windows.

Hey, you are right! The entire Intel 815 chipset family supports only 512MB. So, martypastor, that's really bad luck. Your motherboard cannot support more than 512MB.

IF i thne put more than 512MB of RAM into my system, what would happened?