Hi,

Be careful experimenting with ram of unknown
compatibility.  I had a Dell machine with 32mb of ram
and got some ram sticks of unknown ancestry.  I put in
two sticks that gave me a whopping total of 80mb of
ram and had no apparent problems.  They even showed in
POST.  It wasn't until a couple of weeks later that my
win98 OS started acting up.  After calling Mictrosoft
for help, I figured out it was the ram and wound up
pulling the two new sticks and reinstalling win98.  

John Freibergs

--- Sue <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi again listers,
> 
> The ram that was in the 1997 Dell, I was putting in
> a Gateway G6-400 of also a 1997 machine and in an
> IBM Aptiva from 1998.  The IBM read most of the ram
> while the Gateway read only a few strips.  I know
> that each machine can handle insertion of 1 ram
> strip as it only has 3 slots, and I know it can
> handle the pc 100 but not the PC 133 and defintely
> not the one with gold edge ( that one was too modern
> and smoked on one machine).  As of now I am leaving
> the slot empty in case any damaged occurred.
> The one web page that I found that  did  help me a
> tad was
> http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/sdram.html
> 
>          PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files
> for download
>                      visit our download web page at:
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