Upgrading RAM on Intel 815e Chipset

Innovator · 22nd March 2006

Friends,

I wanna upgrade my RAM on Intel 815e Chipset mother board, P III 866 MHz. Currently I have 384 MB (Slots : 256, 128, none) RAM on my board. I want to upgrade this to (Slots : 512, 512, none). Can anyone tell me if this is possible?

Following is my complete set of System Configuration Information :

CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1

Name: Intel Pentium III EB
Code Name :Coppermine-T
Specification :Intel Pentium III EB 866MHz
Family / Model / Stepping :6 8 A
Extended Family / Model :0 0
Brand ID :2
Package :Socket 370 FC-PGA
Core Stepping :cD0
Technology :0.18 um
Supported Instructions Sets :MMX, SSE
CPU Clock Speed :861.9 MHz
Clock multiplier : x 6.5
Front Side Bus Frequency 132.6 MHz
Bus Speed : 132.6 MHz
L1 Data Cache : 16 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 32 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache : 16 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 32 Bytes line size
L2 Cache : 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 32 Bytes line size
L2 Latency : 0
L2 Speed : 861.9 MHz (Full)
L2 Location : On Chip
L2 ECC Check : enabled
L2 Data Prefetch Logic : no
L2 Bus Width : 256 bits

Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer : Intel Corporation
Motherboard model : D815EEA2, AAA54453-208
BIOS vendor : Intel Corp.
BIOS revision : EA81520A.86A.0039.P21.0211061753
BIOS release date : 11/06/2002
Chipset : Intel i815/E/EP rev. A2
Southbridge : Intel 82801BA (ICH2) rev. 02
Sensor chip : 5B5B FFFFFFFF

Memory
DRAM Type : SDRAM
DRAM Size : 384 MBytes
DRAM Frequency : 132.6 MHz
FSB-DRAM : 1:1
CAS# Latency : 3.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# : 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge : 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) : 7 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) : 9 clocks
# of memory modules : 2
Module 0 : SDRAM PC133 - 256 MBytes
Module 1 : SDRAM PC133 - 128 MBytes

Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c

Information is tooooooooo heavy

Early reply wud b appreciated

Thanks in Advance

The Innovator

**Whiskeyman** · 22nd March 2006

That motherboard will only accept 256MB memory modules in each slot maximum. You can put in a total of 768MB but it will only recognize 512MB. I don't know if there is a Bios update to enable the use of larger RAM.

D815EEA, D815EEA2, D815EPEA2

Turks · 23rd March 2006

Yeah, the 815 only supports a max of 512mb of ram.

rsinfo · 23rd March 2006

You need SDRAM for PIII.

Innovator · 23rd March 2006

Hi All,

First of all I wud like to convey my thanks to all the friends for the prompt reply with a solution.

Looks like I can have only a maximum of 512 MB RAM on my board as per ur reply. So I think I better replace my 128 MB slot stick with a 256 MB stick and later upgrade my system to P4.

ThankQ Once again to all of you.

Have Great Weekend

The Innovator