Re: Craplins Book PC help required

["Quinten Uijldert" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>]

> I know some of you were conned at the beginning of this year by
Paul
Gordon
> into spending more money on yet another BARGAIN.
>
> I was one of them, and became the proud owner of a Book PC.  It's
been
> happily running Windows 2K Server ever since on a Celery 533 and
256MB
RAM.
>
> Tuesday I ordered 2 x 256MB PC133 RAM from eBuyer (blame Paul again)
to
make
> it faster (was struggling and spending loads of time swapping).
>
> Installed it fine, but will the bugger recognise it?  Will it
heck.  I've
> booted it - but it only sees 256MB instead of 512MB.  Removing 1
DIMM
> results in it seeing 128MB.  This is weird - I tried a stick in
another
> machine and it correctly recognises 256MB.

James,

I have a similar problem with my Via Mini-ITX motherboard. It won't
recognise the stick of unbranded 512Mb PC133 memory I put in it, instead
it
will just report it as 256Mb. Putting the same stick in another
motherboard
and it works as expected. So, dodgy motherboard I thought and have sent
it
back to the distributor who today told me they used 2 different branded
PC133 sticks of 512Mb memory and they both work as expected!  I think
they
keywords in this story are 'branded' and 'unbranded'. Is yours by any
chance
the latter?

> Elite (Book PC manufacturer) were most unhelpful and told me I had
to
speak
> to Craplins.  I'm not paying 50p a minute to Craplins for help
that is
> probably as useful as a chocolate fireguard.
>
> According to Elite site (which is crap), my BIOS is the latest.

And the Via motherboard doesn't even have any updates on its drivers/bios
:)

> Any ideas anyone?

Maybe we should try a swap?

Q.

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