Hi,
> I was wondering, is there a connection to installing extra memory
> and the RU Evaluation Version of the ABIT BP6 BIOS?
>
> A friend of mine, and myself have had severe memory problems and
> we both run the RU Eval. BIOS. On my machine, if I take out the
> installed memory, and put in new, it will not boot and just
> beep four tines: long, short, short, short indicating a problem
> with the memorychips.
No, this is indicating "problem with the graphics card".
> And it will not boot even when I put back
> the older installed memory until I removed all other hardware and
> step by step putting it all back in...
>
> On my friends computer it will only beep at us when installing
> memory on the 3rd bank of the board. Any combination of 2 will
> work in the first and second banks...
>
> Another friend of mine (Yeah, 3 friends of mine have BP6'es :]) has
> a BP6 also, but he doesn't run RU, he's still with the BIOS the
> board came with as far as I know... He can just put in any memory
> anywhere on the board and it will most likely boot, unless the memory
> chips are crap.
>
> Could there be any connection between RU and installing memory??
>
> But since removing all hardware and putting it all in helped I began
> wondering if it really is the memory, or just cards which do not
> stay in place properly when pressing and bending the board to put
> in the memory. This could explain MY case of not being able to
> put in new memory, but what about my friend's 3rd bank not working
> problem?? The loose hardware doesn't sound like a logical explanation
> for this problem does it?
I had 128+128+64 for a long time, it worked through all BIOSses
including RU.
Cheers -e
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