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