I have had this problem on both my old SE/30 and more recent G3.
Although these are considerably different machines [all three - yours included] there may be some work arounds.
In the case of my SE/30, I discovered that it required a small piece of system software in order for the machine to recognize the larger capacity SIMMS I'd installed. This software was specific to nd from the same manufacturer of the memory chips I'd installed.
In the case of my G3, it required a slower chip speed in order to recognize the two new 256 MB chips I'd installed.
So, all this to say, you may be able to solve your problem by downloading from your RAM manufacturers web site a piece of software that'll force your machine to recognize the full capacity of your new memory chips; if such a piece of SW exists. I rather doubt this, but ya never know.
Alternatively and more likely, you may need memory chips with a slower clock speed in order for your machine to recognize their full capacity..
Nothing's ever as simple as it first seems....
Cheers,
Bill
At 7:39 PM -0800 14/1/2004, Richard Gleeson wrote:
I bought 2-64 MB and 1-32 MB DIMMs from 4allmemory.com. I pulled the old 32 MB out, it was in the first dual bank slot, and installed the new memory 64's in the dual bank slots and the 32 in the single bank slot. I turned on the computer an used the system profiler. I'm running OS 9.0. The profiler said I had 96 MB. I removed the first 64 MB of memory and the profiler said I had 64 MB. I then remover the 32 MB chunk and the profiler said I had 32 MB remaining. The profiler seems to be giving me credit for 32 MB per slot no matter if the slot has 32 MB or 64 MB. Has anyone seen this problem before. I have no idea as to whether it is a software problem or a hardware problem.
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