Memory

[kemouse]

Is it possible that this board (pcchips m571)requires buffered DIMM?

[MAGIC 8-BALL and THE ELF]

I suppose anything is possible. Do they make buffered DIMMs? - Elf

What does pcchips have to say? - 8-Ball

[kemouse]

thanks for trying to help and yes they do, but they're super expensive (around $100 for 32m)anyway, I blew that board off and got another

[Peter M]

No, the M571 takes any standard PC DIMM (PC66 or faster, faster than 10ns not needed, but working).

Most people just don't manage to push them hard enough into the socket. Something you can also overlook with the M571 is that the DIMM1 slot (which has to be populated or else the integrated VGA won't work) is the one closer to the SIMM sockets.

Generic advice for a switch from EDO/FPM to SDRAM: Don't mix EDO/FPM RAM with SDRAM DIMMs, that'll fry the SDRAM's data line drivers over time. Update your mainboard's BIOS to the latest available to make sure that today's high integration SDRAM is sized properly.

With those precautions, your M571 should run any PC100 or PC133 DIMM up to 256 MByte per piece.
http://www.pcchips.com.tw/bios/m571 has the latest BIOS for all board revisions. Pick the right one, please. Use AMIFLASH.EXE 6.xx for the update, and don't use Windows Netscape for the BIOS download (it'll screw up the BIOS file in some cases).

Regards, Peter

[Ygor]

Peter, I always like your answers, but what happened in that last line?
Windows IE or Netscape?