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Use what the manual calls for. Just to cover your bets buy it at a place
where you can return it if it doesn't work.
HTH
Jose
Paul A. Shippert wrote:
> Greetings all--
>
> I am presently working on a colleague's Compaq Presario 7170. It
> is a P90, w/8 MB RAM, NO cache, 850 MB hard disk, & CD-ROM.
> Having related to me that it was/is very slow to load (and run,
> in general), I checked the usual bottlenecks (excessive number of
> fonts, many startup apps, presence of sufficient memory, etc.)
> and will be recommending to her that her most cost-effective
> (apparently) upgrade for performance improvement will be to add
> cache (the Compaq manual-prescribed 256K) and RAM.
>
> My question relates to the RAM. The manual calls for 70
> nano(?)second RAM SIMMs (fast page). Will any generic SIMMs be
> usable in this Compaq, or is Compaq one of a few companies using
> proprietary SIMMs?
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