I have inherited a Packard Bell Multimedia 730 box, it has a Cyrix processor (266 mhz), and hardly any RAM. A quick surf to crucial.com shows that this takes 66mhx non-parity SDRAM (cl-2) , unfortunately it only has 2 memory slots, and they only offer 32 meg modules. Since the motherboard will accept 128 meg (according to crucial), I'd like to put more than 64 in this box. I am not having much luck finding 64 or 128 meg modules. Can I substitute any other type? Must it be 66mhz, or is anything else backward-compatible? Any ideas of good info URL's? Thanks in advance. steve
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:47:41AM -0400, steve@carbinworld.com wrote:
I have inherited a Packard Bell Multimedia 730 box, it has a Cyrix processor (266 mhz), and hardly any RAM. A quick surf to crucial.com shows that this takes 66mhx non-parity SDRAM (cl-2) , unfortunately it only has 2 memory slots, and they only offer 32 meg modules. Since the motherboard will accept 128 meg (according to crucial), I'd like to put more than 64 in this box. I am not having much luck finding 64 or 128 meg modules. Can I substitute any other type? Must it be 66mhz, or is anything else backward-compatible? Any ideas of good info URL's? Thanks in advance.
For MHz, bigger numbers are better, and in pretty much every case, are backwards-compatible. You might have problems subsituting larger modules, though, since the organisation of the memory can be different. HTH... -- David Smith | Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 Home: +44 (0)1454 616963 STMicroelectronics | Fax: +44 (0)1454 617910 Mobile: +44 (0)7932 642724 1000 Aztec West | TINA: 065 2380 Almondsbury | Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com BRISTOL, BS32 4SQ | Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk
Stephen H Carbin wrote:
I am not having much luck finding 64 or 128 meg modules. Can I substitute any other type? Must it be 66mhz, or is anything else backward-compatible? Any ideas of good info URL's? Thanks in advance.
steve
I put a 128 Mb 100Mhz SDRAM DIMM in a 66MHz spec machine earlier this year and have had no problems. Unfortunately, I don't know for sure that this will always work. JDL -- Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.
I read Mr. Smith's answer. I have seen problems with putting certain new kinds of memory in older boxes, which is to say, that the machine won't even boot. If you try this, make sure you can return the memory. Also, make sure you can set the motherboard for whatever voltage the memory requires, or you might burn it out, and have to eat it. --doug At 11:47 06/06/2002 -0400, Stephen H Carbin wrote:
I have inherited a Packard Bell Multimedia 730 box, it has a Cyrix processor (266 mhz), and hardly any RAM. A quick surf to crucial.com shows that this takes 66mhx non-parity SDRAM (cl-2) , unfortunately it only has 2 memory slots, and they only offer 32 meg modules. Since the motherboard will accept 128 meg (according to crucial), I'd like to put more than 64 in this box. I am not having much luck finding 64 or 128 meg modules. Can I substitute any other type? Must it be 66mhz, or is anything else backward-compatible? Any ideas of good info URL's? Thanks in advance.
steve
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At 11:47 06/06/2002 -0400, Stephen H Carbin wrote:
I have inherited a Packard Bell Multimedia 730 box, it has a Cyrix processor (266 mhz), and hardly any RAM. A quick surf to crucial.com shows that this takes 66mhx non-parity SDRAM (cl-2) , unfortunately it only has 2 memory slots, and they only offer 32 meg modules. Since the motherboard will accept 128 meg (according to crucial), I'd like to put more than 64 in this box. I am not having much luck finding 64 or 128 meg modules. Can I substitute any other type? Must it be 66mhz, or is anything else backward-compatible? Any ideas of good info URL's? Thanks in advance.
steve
If you can find the right type of 128 MB RAM for your machine, then of course, go for it, but also note that SuSE does run OK with 64 MB as long as you avoid memory-hogging KDE and Gnome. A light window manager like XFCE, Blackbox, IceWM or WindowMaker will do the job quite nicely. - Robert Storey
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