Paul:
EDO and even plain old RAM will work, but he'll have to settle for a slower
FSB, and a performance hit.  These boards have a lot of jumpers (and I do
mean a lot) that allow all sorts of configuration options.  It's covered in
the manual.  My FIC VA-503+ originally used the RAM from my old 486, and it
worked fine.  It worked better, though, when I got some PC-100 sticks. It is
not possible, however, to mix RAM types.
-- Carroll Grigsby
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Jones <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 10:54 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] 100MHz bus and EDO ram


> Hello listers,
>
> A student of mine has been told that if he wants to put an AMD K6-2/350 on
> a FIC VA-503+ MB, he can't use his old EDO memory because of the 100MHz
> front side bus.
>
> Is this true?  I had never heard of such, and know that there are jumpers
> for setting SDRAM speed lower when using higher front side bus settings.
I
> can find no documentation regarding high processor speeds and SIMMs.
>
> Any confirmation/denial would be welcomed.
>
>
> J. Paul Jones
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