> My flatmate has an old PII machine and, since I've upgraded, I was > hoping to let him have my hand-me-down RAM. The machine is based > around the Intel AL440LX mobo which can only deal with 66MHz SDRAM. > The SIMMs are PC100 (x2) and PC133 (x1).
It may not be able to deal with that much RAM - some boards can handle 512 others more, others less etc. > I always thought you could clock down but we just stuck it in and the > machine wouldn't even get to POST beep stage. Is there some > fundamental different between 66MHz and PC100/133 RAM that means I > can't donate my spare RAM to him? This has worked for me on a number of boards - even putting 256Mb RAM in a old VX board with a P200 I think worked but only counted 128Mb. Perhaps you need to try every combination of DIMM - have you? Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
