As I recall, most motherboards from that era had four SIMM slots, so
putting 64MB in each slot should work okay, and board capacity shouldn't be
an issue.

  There are two other issues to consider, however:

1.  SIMMs were available with and without parity.  Macs never used parity,
but many PCs allowed a choice in the BIOS or via a motherboard jumper.
While SIMMs with parity *should* work okay with this turned off, I recommend
that all four SIMMs be of the same type if possible.

2.  Starting around 1998 with the Pentium II, most new systems went to DIMMs
instead.  Unless you have a good used/surplus computer outlet nearby (I have
several, but I'm in the heart of Silicon Valley and cannot assume the rest
of the world is similar...), it may be difficult to find SIMMs at all any
more, let alone four that are a close match.

David Gillett


On 27 Nov 2004 at 2:14, Jack den Boer wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm trying to upgrade a 200 megahertz Intel Pentium w/MMX for my daughter. The BIOS is American Megatrend Inc 062207/15/95.
> Currently it runs on 96Mb RAM (1x 64MB & 1x 32Mb).
> I'd like to put 256 Mb RAM in it;
> 1) Does that exceed the capacity of the board?
> 2) If not, what exact type of RAM do I need to get for the upgrade?
>
> Thanks
>
> God bless
>
> Jack
>
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              Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along
             with the OpenOffice CD...  at a great price!!!
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