On Wednesday 12 June 2002 12:26 pm, you wrote: > dfox wrote: > > You might be able to add more RAM. It depends on your motherboard, and > > you should consult the manufacturer's manual to be sure. There can be > > problems mixing different types and speeds of RAM, and it might be an > > either/or situation with respect to simms vs. dimms in that particular > > motherboard. > > What he said! > > And, if you don't have the manual for the motherboard anymore, try to > give us a model number. (I'm not sure that "200 megahertz genuine Intel > motherboard" pins it down -- does the 200 mhz refer to the max. > processor speed of to the memory bus speed -- if the latter, it's a > fairly recent motherboard and I'd expect to be able to put a lot of > memory (more than 128 MB) in the dimm slots. But just for perspective, > the motherboard I've used as a standard for several years (I've started > replacing them recently) can use simms and dimms in certain specific > combinations (I don't know what that does to the overall memory bus > speed -- someone told me all the memory would run at the speed of the > slowest simms), but the maximum size dimm (in each of two slots) is 64 > MB. So I run these motherboards (in Linux) with 128 MB. > > Like I said, check your manual, and if you don't have your manual, > search the Intel site for more info, or publish the model number here, > so maybe somebody with the same motherboard can help you. > > Randy Kramer
Dear All, Thank you for your thoughts. I never did have a manual for it, wish I did. Is the model number only on the board? I guess the best way to get all of the info is to open up the machine again. I will do that, if needed, but is there another way? I copied my info below from the system info for the processor: processor 0 vendor_id GenuineIntel cpu family 5 model 4 model name Pentium MMX stepping 4 cpu MHz 200.459 fdiv_bug no hlt_bug no f00f_bug yes coma_bug no fpu yes fpu_exception yes cpuid level 1 wp yes flags fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx bogomips 399.76 I knew that you are not supposed to mix different kinds of memory so my plan was to take out the simms and put in two 256 megs of sdram dimm ram into the dimm 168 pin slots. I thought that might work for getting my much desired 512 megs of ram. Will this make a big difference for my speed given the processor info above? Thanks for the great thoughts and suggestions. Marcia
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