There is such a thing as 168 pin edo dimms.  If your motherboard only
supports edo in a 168 pin slot, do not install sdrams in their place.  I
have a very early pentium pro motherboard like this, it is the only one
with this limitation I have ever owned. As mine already has 256meg and
is only running linux, it performs satisfactorily, you on the other hand
might consider scrapping your motherboard.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Trachtenberg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 3:14 AM

> The chipset on my motherboard does not support SDRAM, it only supports
FPM, EDO, and BEDO. If I use SDRAM on this motherboard, what will
happen?
Thanks.
>
> Woei Hung

Memory is a very touchy subject. If your motherboard doesn't like the
RAM
module that you put in a lot of different things can happen, from many
errors and blue screens to not being able to boot up. If you know that
your
board will not support SDRAM then don't use it. Actually, if it does not
support SDRAM, then it probably doesn't have the proper sized slots for
SDRAM modules. EDO modules are not the same size as SDRAMs.

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