I have a 486 motherboard of the same vintage that uses 30 pin SIMMs and it can only handle up to 8 4MB SIMMs. Your manual sounds correct based upon my own experience with a similar board. If you try to use SIMMs with a capacity higher than 4MB your system may not work properly. "James (Jim) Hatridge" wrote:

Hi All;

I've a 486/33 that was built in 1992. I have 8mg Main Mem (ie 8x1mg). I want to upgrade it. My manual says that it can only use up to 8x4mg. Is this right? At the time all anyone had was 4mg chips. If I put 8 or 16mg chips in will the BIOS work, will Linux see them?

TIA!

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"James (Jim) Hatridge" wrote:

Hi All;

I've a 486/33 that was built in 1992. I have 8mg Main Mem (ie 8x1mg). I want to upgrade it. My manual says that it can only use up to 8x4mg. Is this right? At the time all anyone had was 4mg chips. If I put 8 or 16mg chips in will the BIOS work, will Linux see them?

TIA!

The best way is to try it out. One of the nice things about the old 486's, is that they counted up each memory sequentially, not in pairs , like pentiums. Try a 16meg, and if it dosn't work in one slot, try it in the other slots, one at a time. I have an old 486, and it would take funny configurations, as long as you ran dos, a 16-bit system. As soon as you tried a 32-bit OS, like OS2, or Linux, it got real touchy about ram. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>