On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > 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,
in some cases it is possible to mix up edo and sdram, some MB:s support that but then must be ensured that SDRAM can handle 5V. there is such sdrams... I have successully used simms and dimms on same system and had no problems what so ever even my system was overclocked. Pasi S
