Interesting hardware problem

[Michael Hipp]

Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>> I had an Abit BP6, running 2 socket-370 Celeron 300A with SMP. Those 
>> were the days. :)
> 
> That's my old linux server, running Caldera Openlinux.
> 
>> The CUBX is really old by now. But I don't understand why overclocking 
>> would make the BIOS find more memory... funny...
> 
> Correction: overclocking reports right memory; standard speed, more 
> memory. Funny...

I guess I don't see anything particularly odd about it. One of the mem 
sticks obviously just isn't capable of the higher speed and your BIOS is 
correctly identifying such.

I've found the PC-66/100/133 motherboards and memory to be very finicky 
about combinations and speeds. It's not unusual to have to hand pick 
memory sticks out of a pile of 50 in order to find a combination that 
will work to get more memory in a particular mobo.

It may be disappointing, but it's not odd.

In any case, memtest86 is your friend. :-)

Michael