On Mon, 17 May 2004 14:28:52 +0200, in alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,
"Torben Birk" wrote:

I have a P3B-F rev1.04. I am running P3B-F ACPI BIOS 1008 beta 04.
I can't figure out wheter this MB support the Registered Kingston module:
KVR100X72RC2L/256 or not.
I'm almost sure that if it wasn't registered it would be compatible - since
it consists of 18 RAM-chips organised as 16Mx8.
[snip]

ITYM "32Mx72"; but beyond that, I think your subsequent suspicion is correct.
Alas, I don't have a P3B-F manual handy at the moment, so I'm unable to
confirm this definitively; but I strongly suspect that it will not properly
support buffered ("registered") memory. ECC os OK -- recommended, even -- but
many BX-chipset mobos require unbuffered DIMMs, even tho' _in_theory_ the
underlying chipset does not.

That said, have you tried setting *all* timings and similar to their
slowest/default values? Note, you may need to install the old DIMMs in order
to access the BIOS SETUP facility, in order to make these changes; then shut
down, reinstall the new DIMMs, and try again.

And why I choose this ECC memory module? - it is cheap: 40$!. And the only
256MB module I can get at present that possibly would work.

[snip]

Not all *that* cheap; and by no means the only suitable module. See:

http://castle.pricewatch.com/search/searchmc.idq?cr=PC100+256MB+ECC&qc=%22PC100%22*+AN D+%22256MB%22*+AND+%22ECC%22*+AND+%40ctd+33&i=33&c t=Computer&c=System+Memory&mi=N&m=N


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