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Hi all,

Im running for a longer time my oldie Asus TX97-X with TX430 Triton II chipset and I made a test with 3x128MB EDO DIMMs.

In the manual they mention that the max installed ram size is 256MB, also in the Intel TX430 chipset datasheet mention this.

However the MoBo is able to detect 384MB RAM successfully, my question is, does somebody have simillar experience with a MoBo with TX430 chipset and run same amounth of memory without problems?

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Wouldn't happen to have the Beta BIOS in it, would it?

http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&s=5&m=TX97-X&os=&hashedid=n/a

(see Downloads for OS="other")

Mobo here? http://www.baber.com/baber/411/asustx97x.htm

EDIT - According to this, you can (if proper RAM and position is observed) go to 512mb -

http://www.wimsbios.com/forum/notebook-bios-and-other-problems-f38/thinkpad-770x-the-maximum-memory-saga-continues-t6493-15.html

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Wouldn't happen to have the Beta BIOS in it, would it?

http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&s=5&m=TX97-X&os=&hashedid=n/a

(see Downloads for OS="other")

Mobo here? http://www.baber.com/baber/411/asustx97x.htm

EDIT - According to this, you can (if proper RAM and position is observed) go to 512mb -

http://www.wimsbios.com/forum/notebook-bios-and-other-problems-f38/thinkpad-770x-the-maximum-memory-saga-continues-t6493-15.html

Yep,that's the MoBo.

The BIOS is the last version that was released from Asus, only Jan (http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/Index.htm) made for me a custom update of is patch for this MoBo, that it can detect drives up to 640GB.Nothing else modified.

Interesting is if the board really supports 512MB RAM.Gotta check that,when I'll get those EDO DIMMs.

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From ASUS -

TX97-X Beta BIOS 0112.001
The latest Beta BIOS.

From the link (I've used some of them before)

0112X_J2.ZIP - "Apart from K6plus support, this "patch J.2" BIOS has a fix for the 32GB harddisk limit and supports IDE drives upto 128GB!"

Note that he had patched the BETA above, meaning the "Beta" may have had some kind of additional "fix"? ;)

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From ASUS -

TX97-X Beta BIOS 0112.001

The latest Beta BIOS.

From the link (I've used some of them before)

0112X_J2.ZIP - "Apart from K6plus support, this "patch J.2" BIOS has a fix for the 32GB harddisk limit and supports IDE drives upto 128GB!"

Note that he had patched the BETA above, meaning the "Beta" may have had some kind of additional "fix"? ;)

yeah, I have "patch J.3", which should be up to 640G,as Jan told me.But that was already 6 years go.I have to ask him,if he made some extra fixes :)

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Well my point was (and I wonder why J3 was never released) that sometimes Beta BIOS files fix some things, e.g. RAM detection. I have (had) a MoBo that specifically stated a max of 512mb but it did, indeed, accept 728mb (3x256). Notice that the Beta one doesn't say what "got fixed", but Jan stated "fixes" (as I quoted). Whether the "J3" is what "fixed" it or not, I don't know, however, look at this for a "clue" -

http://rays-place.net/Extras/PCTechGuide/27chipsets.htm

Just be happy it works and if you can contact Jan and get an answer, you might ask why it wasn't released or if he will.

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Well my point was (and I wonder why J3 was never released) that sometimes Beta BIOS files fix some things, e.g. RAM detection. I have (had) a MoBo that specifically stated a max of 512mb but it did, indeed, accept 728mb (3x256). Notice that the Beta one doesn't say what "got fixed", but Jan stated "fixes" (as I quoted). Whether the "J3" is what "fixed" it or not, I don't know, however, look at this for a "clue" -

http://rays-place.net/Extras/PCTechGuide/27chipsets.htm

Just be happy it works and if you can contact Jan and get an answer, you might ask why it wasn't released or if he will.

Thanks for the link, nice !

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