Old Memory Problem

[balamm]

What's the OS? Don't the early one have a ceiling? Are there IRQ jumpers or register dips to set?

[adamp2p]

This thread should help you

Follow this link and read 2nd gen noob's 3rd post

[ck-uk]

I cant rembr exactly but with my old 386 and first pentium,with the mem u had to
keep them in matchins pairs,somthing like that it was a long time ago

[TheFilePirater]

yea, my ol-re-lie-able shit comp 386?? i think had to have matchin pairs, like 32-32 64-64

[zacspeed]

What's the OS? Don't the early one have a ceiling? Are there IRQ jumpers or register dips to set?

It's a Penitum1 166MHz running 98SE.
Is there anything in the BIOS I can change

[balamm*]

probably if you can get into it and understand it all. They didn't make things real clear back then. If the board has the SDRAM slot then you should be able to select to use it only in BIOS. I have had a few that required setting the ram manually and assigning it to an irq and the even older ones had a set of dip switches on the board that had to be in the right sequence to register each ram module.

[Wolfmight]

What's the brand? you might be able to find a website with support on old versions of pcs for that brand. The ram could be dusty.. scratched.. etc.. Those will cause it to fail.