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rglenlam

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A question of memory
« on: November 21, 2004, 07:03:15 PM »
First of all, please forgive my computer illiteracy. I have an older computer my children use, a Compaq with an AMD-K6 450 MHz processor. Originally it came with 64 Mb of SDram and is expandable to 384 Mb. Normally the bus speed of this RAM is PC100, yet last year I yanked out the 64Mb chip replacing it with a PC133 128Mb chip.  

What my actual question is; will my computer allow me to run and accept up to the 384 Mb ram maximum on the PC133 bus? Or will there be glitches. With the single 128 Mb chip installed there have been no problems.

I know the Ns were critical back then so before I invest in another 256Mb just wanted to find out if I can use the PC133 bus.  Thank you so very much for and help and responses. Happy Holidays as well.  :)

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    Re: A question of memory
    « Reply #1 on: November 23, 2004, 12:30:57 AM »
    rglenlam.......Have you tried putting the 64mb pc100  stick in with the 128 mg of pc133 ........and see if 192 mg is seen.....?

    If the mobo will support 384 of sd pc 133 go for it .....failing that why not use pc100 or pc 133 ram thats backwards compatible .

    dl65  ::)
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