Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100
THREAD:
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 shaleh@clifford.livenet.net 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?
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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.
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