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