SOME of the older RAM required different voltage(s) to be
set on the MB...  I believe this is the reason you are "smoking"
some of them, (but there could be additional reasons, I guess...)

Assuming the above is the "only" problem, it would seem your
MB uses the higher voltage. <??>

In any event, for RAM of this vintage, "blind swapping" is not
a good way to test...

                                         Rick Glazier

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sue"

Hi listers,

I have a bunch of ram sticks that probably came out of dell towers  created around 1997, most i think are 64 or 128 kb and pc100
Does anyone know of a web page that can tell me what these ram sticks are as the stickers have fallen off and I  am trying to 
determine them based on the numbers on the chips.  I  have only fond one page after looking thought many search engines and the page 
is not very complete.  I do not want to try just putting them in my machine, as I have already caused smoke  twice on different 
machines and different sticks and I am afraid I will damage he machine. 

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