Dunno if this'll help but..........

Yesterday I attempted to add some extra ram to a slow-slow-slow 98'-ish
vintage Aptiva.

It's installed ram was 32Mb of PC100 ram and I added 128Mb of PC133.

It booted up ok, but came up with all kinds of illegal op. messages, ie,
'Explorer has performed an illegal operation', that kind thing, and wouldn't
completely load.

So I pulled out the 128Mb stick. No problems, normal load.

I pulled out the old 32Mb stick and replaced it with the new 128Mb.  No
problems (except still not a lot faster, if at all, guess it must be a
combination of the Bigfoot drive and slow FSB)

So I've learnt the hard way that ram types can be incompatible.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Kohout"
Subject: [PCBUILD] Adding more RAM--need advice


> Can I mix 66mhz and 100MHZ ram?
>
> I need to add ram to my Aptiva E96 wish has 66mhz bus...Currently i have
> 224 megs and wish to max it to 384MB..
>
> It has 3 total slots.
>
> what is the best approach?
>
> thank you!
>
>
> Al Kohout

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