Jetway board not recognizing full 1GB RAM

**darag2358** · 08-09-2009, 08:22 PM

Uggh. Any ideas? I have a Jetway J7F2WE2G board, which is an EPIA/VIA C7 2ghz board. Has one memory slot for DDR2 memory up to 1gb. Got a Kingston 1gb non-buffered, non ECC stick which is what the board is supposed to take, but the board is only recognizing 512mb. Thought it was a bad stick, Newegg shipped another out and still having the same problem. Any ideas?

**PaulF** · 08-09-2009, 08:45 PM

I'm willing to bet the onboard graphics is stealing it. Check out the BIOS to see if there is a setting for how much memory the onboard graphics card is taking.

**darag2358** · 08-09-2009, 10:52 PM

There is, but only 64mb. Windows shows the subtracted amount, but the memory check at bios should should the full 1gb.

**PaulF** · 08-09-2009, 11:17 PM

You have any other sticks from different computers you can try?

Also muck around in the BIOS a bit, there might be a setting to limit it.

**TruckinMP3** · 08-09-2009, 11:22 PM

If the MB does not support high density RAM it could show this result in BIOS

**2k1Toaster** · 08-10-2009, 05:34 AM

Originally Posted by TruckinMP3

If the MB does not support high density RAM it could show this result in BIOS

And I know for a fact that it does not.

I created a whole thread about how much these Jetway boards suck because of RAM problems.

I tried various RAMs on their limited list of supported RAM modules, none would work. I tried high density, low density, everything and nada.

But I know that I got absolutely nothing with high density RAM, and it says specifically in the manual to not use high density (at least on the J9F2).

**darag2358** · 08-10-2009, 11:18 PM

Thanks. The manual doesn't say anything about high density chips, but I think you are probably correct. I've ordered a low density stick and hopefully it recognizes it, otherwise maybe I'll start looking at Jetway alternatives.