Upgrading SDRAM

Check the mother board specifications and see if the board will support memory upgrades over 128,K6-2,whereas the 2 is an indication.BIOS AND BUS speed are other factors that determine the memory up grade.
Iam using a pentium II with MMX,and I am maxed out with 128mg of memory,due to the board specs.

I would check with your motherboard manual to see what it supports.
Most older boards the limit is 128mb, but for newer boards their limit seems to be 512mb. some do goto 1024mb=1gb

Check it doesn't have to be in pairs
eg 2*128mb sdram

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Check the motherboard manufacturer to see if the board jumpers or switches has to be changed to support memory upgrade.Some manufacturers have jumpers or switches that need to be set on the mother board,that allows the memory to be upgraded.

Hi came back to offer another solution
Check the motherboard manufacturer to see if the board jumpers or switches has to be changed to support memory upgrade.Some manufacturers have jumpers or switches that need to be set on the mother board,that allows the memory to be upgraded.

Check AMD's site: Their CPU's do not run with Ram from all manufacturers.

You haven't tweaked a Compaq by any chance have you? Compaqs are very picky about their RAM and will give all kinds of problems after boot. If it is another motherboard then check the jumpers, upgrade the BIOS, check the mfr website for know issues/workarounds. How much ram is being reported?

This may sound like a silly answer, but I had the same problem with the wife's AMD. When it was factory shipped, some clod at the company had went into the MSCONFIG General/Advanced and had checked the "Limit memory to 32 mb" box. Check this out.Your K6 should support either 256 or 512 mb.

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