[SGVLUG] Laptop memory question...

[Steve Bibayoff]

Hello,

On 6/4/06, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is not a chipset limitation. It has to do with that the
> motherboard, and or bios. But it is a hardware limitation. Think about
> it at the time "the PC OS" you know the one from Washington could not
> support more then 512MB so there was no reason to spend the money to
> build hardware that could support more then 512MB.  I have a 440BX
> motherboard that can support 1.5GB.

Are you sure? According to Intel's 440BX spec sheet:
ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29063301.pdf
this chipset will support "8 to 512 Mbytes or 1GB(with registered DIMMs)"

Just curious,

Steve