Topic: 128mb Upgrade Problem? (Read 325 times)

Dano2k0 · « **on:** September 07, 2005, 10:44:00 AM »

Alright guys,

Well as some of you are aware i do 128MB Upgrades for many people, i have a motherboard here that i upgraded some time ago and it recognised all the 128MB for some time, lately it says in all apps only 64MB?? but the box boots perfectly fine every time with out fail, its been doing this for a little while now, the soldering looks alright but ive not checked the joints to see if theres any issues yet!

Also ive tried different HDD's and formated them over to make sure its not a software issue.

Ive also been doing a motherboard for a customer today, and its been the biggest pain in the world, ive never had one as difficult its always fragging even though the soldering looks fine. :huh: Not to worry i'll sort this one i'm sure!

By the way, No i'm not a noob, and have done many 128MB upgrades, just this one i can't really work out what the problem is for it to say only 64MB? help!

Cheers.

Dano2k0 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 08, 2005, 05:11:00 AM »

Come on guys this is pretty crap, ive had 19 views and 0 replies, someone must have something to at least input thats abit constructive?

I'm going to take a look at the soldering today and hope that i can fix it easily.

I can't belive no one has replied i reply to alot of posts when i'm online in this area and give alot of usefull information to those in the need, i know someone must know the answer to my problem i just wish they would post and let me know

Please leave me some info if you can think of anything usefull.

Cheers

Veeb0rg · « **Reply #2 on:** September 08, 2005, 05:38:00 AM »

could it be possible that the one of the ram chips died, and the xbox disabled the whole bank

Dano2k0 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 08, 2005, 08:16:00 AM »

Thanks for the reply, at least i have someone willing to contribue

It is very possible but ive never heard of this before, so i'm a little unsure to be honest and ive never come accross it before either.

Ive checked all the soldering and all of it seems fine, i can't make my mind up whats wrong with it, i deffinatly know its not a software problem and i think the problem occoured when i swapped the HDD out to a larger one ive tried formatting a number of drives in this one just to make sure this isn't the problem.

Please post any other possibiltys or thoughts on this.

Cheers

deadparrot · « **Reply #4 on:** September 08, 2005, 09:03:00 AM »

Check it with Xebian or something. That's all I can say.

Perplexer · « **Reply #5 on:** September 08, 2005, 04:06:00 PM »

Problematic RAM upgrades are the worst!

I'd add flux and reflow each pin. If it were a bad RAM chip, it most likely wouldn't boot at all. I've seen a 128MB board lose video, and reflowing the pins fixed the issue.

All recent BIOSes recognize 128MB, but is it possible you're using an older BIOS?

This post has been edited by Perplexer: Sep 8 2005, 11:08 PM

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