User Guide

Hardware Installation

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2.4 Configuring the System Memory

Pin 1 of

Bank1

Pin 1 of

Bank0

Pin 1 of

DIMM

This mainboard has four 72 pin SIMM sockets

(Single-in-line Memory Module) and one 168 pin

DIMM socket (Dual-in-line Memory Module) that

allow you to install system memory from minimum

8MB up to maximum 128MB.

The SIMM supported by this mainboard can be identified by 4 kinds of factors,

Intel VX chipset does not support 64M bit technology.

♦ Size: single side, 1Mx32 (4MB), 4Mx32 (16MB), and double side, 1Mx32x2

(8MB), 4Mx32x2 (32MB).

♦ Speed: 60ns or 70ns access time

♦ Type: FPM (Fast page mode) or EDO (Extended data output)

♦ Parity: without parity (32 bit wide)

The DIMM supported by this motherboard are always 64-bit wide SDRAM,

which can be identified by following factors:

I. Size: single side, 1Mx64 (8MB), 2Mx64 (16MB), 4Mx64 (32MB), 8Mx64

(64MB), 16Mx64 (128MB), and double side, 1Mx64x2 (16MB), 2Mx64x2

(32MB), 4Mx64x2 (64MB), 8Mx64x2 (128MB).

Tip: Here is a trick to check if your DIMM is

single-side or double-side -- if there are traces

connected to golden finger pin 114 and pin 129 of

the DIMM, the DIMM is probably double-side;

otherwise, it is single-side. Following figure is for

your reference.

168

Pin 129

Pin 114