In the wee hour of 03:56 PM 5/26/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] bequeathed
such tales as these:
>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
Ralph, this PII, what cpu is running in it? If it's below a 400mhz then
it's likely running PC-66 dram which is more expensive then PC-100/133
dram. When the system is rebooted you can see what board is in use on the
POST screen, take that to the vendor as most vendor sites have archives for
older and/or discontinued mobo's. Sandra can help you determine a lot
about the board as well, download it here
http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/ for free. HTH
Peter Kaulback
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