> I have an older motherboard with 4 simm slots and 1 dimm. I wanted to
> upgrade the ram by adding
> a 64MB sdram module to the dimm socket, but have heard that the PC100/133
> types doesn't always work
> on older motherboards.
> The motherboard manual says that it takes 64/128MB SDRAM etc but
> no comment
> on the speed or anything else.
> Anyway, I have now tried a 64MB PC133 module and the computer works quite
> happily, but
> with only 16MB being detected.
> Could anyone shed some light on the situation?

     The only universal solution to this problem that I have heard of is to
get PC66 memory, I don't know of any way to get PC100/133 memory to be
properly detected in those types of boards. Maybe somebody else here has.
TTYL

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