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232869 2004-04-29 03:26:00 i have a system that takes PC100 Ram (its a pIII)

can i put pc133 ram in the system?
robsonde (120)
232870 2004-04-29 03:35:00 Yes, but obviously it will run at the slower speed.

Cheers
Miami
Miami Steve (2128)
232871 2004-04-29 03:35:00 As far as I know yes you can, but it will only run at 100Mhz like the rest of the chips you have.
Have a nice day. :-)
B.
Barnabas (4562)
232872 2004-04-29 03:41:00 thats what i have always thought......

the shop tells me that it wont work and i will have to buy the PC100 stuff which BTW is twice the price......
robsonde (120)
232873 2004-04-29 03:45:00 I bought PC133 (SDRAM ??) Ram for my Gateway PIII a couple of years back and it worked fine. Miami Steve (2128)
232874 2004-04-29 03:47:00 its not garenteed to work,Some refuse to work in conjunction with already installed ram,even when they have no real issue about running at 100mhz and will run fine when installed by themselves. metla (154)
232875 2004-04-29 04:13:00 i would be happy to remove the 32Mb and put in a 128MB.

if i can run both then thats cool but i dont care either way.
robsonde (120)
232876 2004-04-29 04:21:00 I had 128Mb (PC100) and added 256Mb (PC133) and am happily running 384Mb at 100MHz.

Cheers
Miami
Miami Steve (2128)
232877 2004-05-03 04:16:00 well that dident work......

I get a 128Mb bit of PC133 and the system spins up 52Mb and then hangs.

i took it back and was told that the ram wont work in a PC100 system.
i told the sales person that thats was not the problem as some of the ram did detect and that i thought that the RAM was bad.
he told me that it wont work in the system because the new ram is single sided and the system must need double sided ram, i told him that this sounded like crap.
he then told me that PC100 and PC133 are diffrent archtechure, i told him that as far as i know its just the speed that is diffrent.

as the end of all this he gave me a 256Mb as a free upgrade.

the 256 wont detect at all, the system just beeps like it has no ram.

now what can i do?
robsonde (120)
232878 2004-05-03 04:40:00 Do you have any other RAM in the system?
Bye
Peter H (220)
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