THREAD: -------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a > > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? > > Nope. I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would still be usable when I get a new motherboard someday. I ran memtest86 for about 24 hours, no problems, and have been running fine ever since (several months). I started having problems recently (filesystem errors and signal 11) so I ran memtest86 again and one of the dimms has gone bad. I took it out and put back in an old regular 32MB dimm, and the two mixed togeter (160MB) ran memtest86 fine overnight, and seems OK after about a week. I don't know why the dimm went bad. I wouldn't think it's because the 100/66MHz issue. Please explain why you think PC100 shouldn't be in a 66MHz board. Do you have any ponters to info on the web? --------------------------------------------- REPLY: Dimms were made in two flavors EDO and SDRAM. They are also made in two voltages 3.3 and 5. If your computer is strapped for 5 volts you might be able to run a 3.3v dimm for a while, before it overheated and died. I don't think you can mix sdrams and edo's. === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com