I have run a PII-450 with 768Megs of PC133 ram for over a year now with no problems, although the motherboard manufacture (intel) says I should use PC100. I have done this several times with other systems as well, as PC100 and PC66 memory is hard to find and often more expensive.
With this much memory, I have disabled the swap file completely, which tends to speed things up too. Cheers J > They're not compatible, electrically or physically. They look very similar but the notches are in slightly different places and they shouldn't fit in the sockets. Your computer owners manual should tell you what type (most likely PC-66, PC-100 or PC-133) memory your machine needs as well as what capacity (128Mb, 256Mb, or 512Mb) each stick can be and the total amount of memory that your machine will support. If you didn't get a manual (all too frequent in this day of discount retailers) then go back to the dealer that you bought it from and MAKE them find that information and give it to you. You're wasting your time trying to upgrade until you find out what you can use. -- Author: Jeremy Proffitt INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
