[PLUG] SDRAM PC-100 question

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your advice

At 10:29 AM 2002/11/1 -0800, you wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Stephen Liu satimis-at-writeme.com |PDX Linux| wrote:
>
> > I have a PC running SDRAM PC-100 and I want to add another 128MB RAM.
> > Now it is difficult to find SDRAM PC-100 on the market.  Can I mix-use
> > SDRAM PC-100 with SDRAM PC-133?
>
>Yes, just be sure that both the exising memory and the new memory are
>unregisterred.  (This is the most common type, registerred memory is
>usually only used in large memory configs of >1GB.)  Registerred PC133
>memory will not work in many PC100 motherboards.

Can visual inspection identify whether they are registered or unregistered.

Thanks

Stephen Liu



>You should also buy from someplace that will let you return the memory for
>exchange if it doesn't work.  I've had very good luck with Crucial
>(http://www.crucial.com).  They also have a large database of
>configurations they or their customers have tried.  If you can tell them
>the type of PC or motherboard you have, they should be able to tell you
>what kind of RAM to use.
>
>   -- Steve
>
>
>
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