Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:39:11 -0700
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Why would a PC accept PC100 and not PC133. What I know is that the
difference between the two is access time.
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:54:29 -0700, "john freibergs" <[log in to unmask]>
said:
> Hi,
>
> Be careful experimenting with ram of unknown
> compatibility. I had a Dell machine with 32mb of ram
> and got some ram sticks of unknown ancestry. I put in
> two sticks that gave me a whopping total of 80mb of
> ram and had no apparent problems. They even showed in
> POST. It wasn't until a couple of weeks later that my
> win98 OS started acting up. After calling Mictrosoft
> for help, I figured out it was the ram and wound up
> pulling the two new sticks and reinstalling win98.
>
> John Freibergs
>
> --- Sue <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi again listers,
> >
> > The ram that was in the 1997 Dell, I was putting in
> > a Gateway G6-400 of also a 1997 machine and in an
> > IBM Aptiva from 1998. The IBM read most of the ram
> > while the Gateway read only a few strips. I know
> > that each machine can handle insertion of 1 ram
> > strip as it only has 3 slots, and I know it can
> > handle the pc 100 but not the PC 133 and defintely
> > not the one with gold edge ( that one was too modern
> > and smoked on one machine). As of now I am leaving
> > the slot empty in case any damaged occurred.
> > The one web page that I found that did help me a
> > tad was
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/sdram.html
> >
> > PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files
> > for download
> > visit our download web page at:
> >
> > http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml
> >
>
>
>
>
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