[olug] DIMM

[Tim Russell]

Often older motherboards don't have the address lines wired up for very
large DIMMs - 256MB was considered very large not all that long ago.  ;-)
You should look at the docs for your motherboard, chances are good that it
supports a max of 128MB per slot.

Best bet is to upgrade the motherboard!  They're cheap these days and you'll
be ready when you want to go to a faster CPU pretty soon.  As soon as I get
moved to Denver I'll be going to a new MB and processor, I've been limping
along with a PII-233 for way too long now!

Tim #1

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul T. McNally" <nally at radiks.net>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 11:10 AM
Subject: [olug] DIMM


> I ordered a 256 meg pc100 dimm chip (check out www.pricewatch.com,
> memory is dirt cheap). I got a chip that has a label that says 256 meg,
> but I slapped into my computer and it seems it registers 128 more megs
> of RAM. Now from experience I know there is a difference in 72 pin
> refresh rate that will effect some older motherboards and how much
> memory they recognize.



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