memory on asus tusl2-c

[rio_bugarin]

I've read the manual of my motherboard asus tusl2-c and it says that it supports pc100 and pc133 rams. My board had a single 128Mb so i added my 64 and 32. My computer now runs with memory of 224Mb.It didnt have any errors by then.

then i bought a second-hand 128Ram speed. The chips had a writing 133 so i concluded that it is a pc133 ram. I removed my 32Mb. When i installed it, I also installed win98se(files are from another hard disk).

During system configuration, there was an error saying that it could't access kernell.dll and other library files. i taught that the installer was corrupted.

i took the cd and installed from it. still the same problem occured.

i removed the 64 and the second-hand 128Mb and there was no error.So i taught that the second-hand 128 was defective. I reinstalled the 32 and 64 and i was in hell again.->widows detected that there was a registry error, restarted the pc then poop!...there goes the registry entries...

What could have happened. 128,64,32 combination worked before but it won't work now. I only have 128Mb of memory running now :confused: .

[rio_bugarin]

the 64 and 32 are pc100 rams.

the second hand 128 had a marking of 133 and some JRAM.(currently doing a google search for that)

specs of my pc:

win98se os
asus tusl2-c
16Mb asus(v300-c) agp card (sis chipset)
maxtor fireball (30Mb)
modem (56K)
soundcard(CMMAudio or something like that)
Kensington WebCam(USB)
Microsoft sidewinder(USB)
Mitsui UPS

My location : Philippines

[Budfred]

I am guessing the JRAM is really DRAM with a bit of the D obscured.

I would test the RAM to see what that tells you. This is one program (DocMem) to do that:

http://www.simmtester.com (it will test from a floppy)

The thing that makes the situation really complicated is doing the RAM install at the same time you did the Win98 install. It is usually a good idea to do one thing at a time to make it easier to sort out problems later.

Second-hand RAM is always a risk, I have gotten been ripped off a couple of times with that. Also, ASUS boards apparently can be very picky about RAM.

Budfred

[saphalline]

The only way to be sure what happened (I'm thinking you might have blown one or more sticks of RAM) is to try them each individually. One by one. :(

That second-hand RAM was probably not in the best shape and may have taken the 64MB stick with it when/if it died. Also, I wonder if that second-hand RAM was registered and/or ECC?