> I've read some listings regarding the use of PC100 ram and the
> ability to use
> it in place of 66mhz ram and that there was no real difference.
> There isn't
> much price difference between PC100 and sdram these days.  I thought I'd
> share an experience I had.
>
> P233mmx  32mb 168pin sdram (1 stick) 2.1 gig hd running Win95 sr2.
>
> I added a stick of 32b 168pin PC100 to the existing sdram stick.  Computer
> recognized ram total of 40 megs instead of 64megs.  After talking with
> several dealers they told me using PC100 on the 66mhz FSB will
> result in only
> 50% of that ram being recognized.  In my case, less than 50% was
> recognized.

        Yes this is very common on pre PII boards. Many socket 7 boards with 66MHz
FSB do not fully recognize 100MHz SDRAM and therefore the user must purchase
66MHz. This problem AFAIK does not affect any PII(I) or Celeron chipset. I
don't know why it occurs or how to fix it. TTYL

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