[pchelpers] Re: just RAMbling

Hi,

This was a common probably of machines around that time.  Often there was a
setting on the motherboard (a jumper) to indicate which memory slots were in
use (often either the SIMMS or first SDRAM slot could be used, but not
both).

Most of the motherboards I encountered either had SIMMS or SDRAM, not both.
I would also recommend that it's not worth the trouble trying to get both to
work on a machine that old.

Also, be aware that many of those older Pentiums (not the Pentium II/III
etc) didn't cache more than the first 64MB of RAM, so access speed on the
65MB to 128MB range may be slow and noticeably so.  Again, it's a matter of
trial and error really :)

Good luck!

Regards,

Bevan


----- Original Message -----
From: "J.T." <jsetcer@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] just RAMbling


>
> just something for the computer tinkerers like me in the group to know.
(you
> real computer techs. knew this 5 years ago and forgot already).....
>
> I just added RAM to my mom's computer and had to take out the old for the
> new to work.  Here are the details:
>
> her computer is a 233 MHZ MMX.  It has 4 SIMMS slots AND two DIMM slots.
It
> already had 4- 8 meg SIMM boards (32768MB).  When I put in a 128 Meg
SDRAM -
> DIMM board it only counted up to 57 something MEG.  When I removed the 4
> SIMM boards, but left the 128 Meg DIMM  board it counts up to 129
something
> Meg like it should.
>
> I take that to mean this mother board will not accept RAM of both genders.
>
> Actually I hope no one ever needs this advice. Meaning, I hope no one ever
> has to use a computer this old....
>
> 73 & Agape,  J. Setcer N5QJ
>
>
>
>

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