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.
This sounds like you have incompatible memory or a bad memory controller. Just to confirm, you used 4allmemory's selector for StarMax memory and ordered parts 14054-04 32 MB and 14054-05 64 MB modules. If you selected one of the other SM machines, the numbers will be different, but the memory should work anyway. They sound like the know the particular issues of SM memory. Verify the packing slip has the correct numbers for the machine you selected and if any labels are on the DIMMs themselves, they match the packing slip. The problem you are describing is that only one 'bank' of the 64 MB modules is being accessed. Most of the time this is because the memory module is a single bank module of 64MB and the SM can only access 32MB of each bank. The other explanation (and I have not yet run across this problem) is that the memory controller on the SM has partially failed and only one bank of memory is being accessed.
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