To one and all,
A good friend of mine has a PII system that was built for him several
years ago. Unfortunately, he does not have any kind of docs for the
motherboard, and the person that built it for him, does not have them
either.
With the price of memory having gone down as much as it has, what I
would like to find out is if there is a program that can be run on the
system that will enable me to figure out what is the max allowable ram
that can be installed in each Simm socket.
Since this can vary so much from one board to another, that is the
reason for me wanting to know. I have been seeing 256Meg simms at Costco
and Sams Club recently for under $100, as well as 128Meg simms for
around $50. The 128s I know would not be any kind of problem, but the
256s could possibly be from issues I have seen in the past. For example,
my own system has a PIII motherboard that can have up to 1Gig of ram
installed per simm socket, while much earlier motherboards in the past
could not have more than 128Meg installed per socket. I just want to
avoid any problem on his system with this whole issue.
Also, these new simms seem to work without any problem in either PC100
or PC133 bus systems. In the past, simms seemed to be dedicated to
working in systems at only one bus speed - has that been changed so that
the new simms can autosense what the buss speed is and work
accordingly???? Or is the issue that since they can work at a buss speed
of PC133, they will automatically work at the lower buss speed of PC100
without a problem???
Ralph
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