VeeshanVault

Anyhow, here is the deal, I downloaded Belarc a program to let me know the type of motherboard I have in this piece of trash ready built Best buy junk.. *That i still use to this day* Anyhow, It says that I am using a Asus Hawk 1.08. I went the Asus website and asked searched for the Motherboard and found nothing, I am curious how much memory the damn thing can hold, as it only has 2 slots for ram. I currently only have 2 128 chips in there, but if possible id like to up it to 2 256's or 2 512s but I dont know if the motherboard supports more than 256 *2 128*.

Does anyone have any idea of a place I might look to find this information? The HP site was useful, but the thing about that is, my motherboard went caput on me before, and they replaced it, the original motherboard in this was a mercury something or other, and now its a asus..


Ty for your help in advanced if you can.

It would be helpful to know what model of PC you have, obviously it is an HP but which HP?

Here's what I found on a quick google of "asus hawk 1.08 memory":

the MERCURY (ASUS MEW-AM) motherboard, along with most of hp's i810 based boards, will do 512MB of ram, but not with Win2k, WinXP or WinNT, so either install the original OS, forget 512MB, or get another motherboard... otherwise you will get some ACPI errors

also upgrading the original mercury bios from 1.08 to 2.10 wont fix your problem either, however it will fix your motherboard identification to reflect CEW-AM/MEW-AM instead of HAWK 1.08 (since hawk stopped at 1.03)