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? ----- PCBUILD mailing list - http://nospin.com Bob Wright:[log in to unmask] - Drew Dunn:[log in to unmask]