My experience with Compaq memory was complicated, too. I needed a special
SIMM for my Pentium 100 (at the time 16 megs cost about $700!)- the pins
were gold plated or something. You may need to buy from them, or find out
exactly what you need as for as type of SIMM.

Good Luck,
Mary


>
>        However, the other day I tried to add two 8 mb modules to a Compaq
Pentium
>60 with 8 mb permanently installed on the main board.  The manual said to
>just add the new memory to the memory slots.......nothing else.  Nothing I
>could do would could get rid of the memory errors on boot up.
>

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