[NTLUG:Discuss] motherboard and memory question

[Kevin E. Ivey]

Fred James wrote:
> I traced this one down to the chip maker (Micron P/N: MT48LC16M16A 75 C 
> TG) as a 32 MB SDRAM Chip, CAS Latency of 2, access time of 6ns, PC 133 
> compliant.
> The DIMM has 4 chips, thus it should be a 128 MB SDRAM DIMM.  The DIMMs 
> themselves are labled as PC100 128MB CL2.
> The only other marking on the DIMM label is a star - is that a brand?
> Still I shall take them in to work tomorrow to see if I can check them 
> in a newer machine (target machine is, after all, from 1998).

Howdy,

Some slightly older boards will not properly detect the "high density" 
SDRAM.  Those are the ones with very few chips for the amount of RAM.

Motherboards.org has lots of info on this subject.  Or Google...

Hope that helps,

keVIn