Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 17:24:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LS-120, Riva 128, ASUS motherboard Message-ID: <19980109172403.43038@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199801081717.JAA18735@MindBender.serv.net>; from Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:17:44AM -0800 References: <199801081113.VAA00252@word.smith.net.au> <199801081717.JAA18735@MindBender.serv.net>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:17:44AM -0800, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > >>>>> Does anyone know if anything special needs to be done to get the ASUS >>>>> P2L97 to work with more than 64 MB of RAM (BIOS settings, switches, >>>>> anything)? > >>>> If this is a VX or TX board, forget it. > >>> Sheesh, is is that bad? Actually I think that this is an LX board (if >>> that's even one of the choices). What's the technical reason that VX/TX >>> boards can't have more than 64 MB? > >> They can, they just won't cache it. If you're on an LX you're using a >> PII, and you can ignore the above. > > As someone else mentioned, Tom's Hardware Guide is one good place to > go for this info. You can also go straight to Intel, though it would > probably take some digging. I've seen this claim before from numerous places, but they all refer to Tom's Hardware Guide. I've read the stuff there. What he says is that he can't see how the TX chipset can cache more than 64 MB without an external tag RAM, and that he can't see how to support the tag RAM. I have a TX board (IWill P55XB2) with 96 MB and something on the board which looks like a tag RAM, but haven't got round to measuring it (or even finding something I can measure with). The board supports up to 256 MB, and nothing in the documentation refers to any cache limitation. I'd be very interested if somebody could come up with independent information. Greg
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