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is pc100 memory compatible with pc133 ??
Hi, a friend has a Packard Bell Club 50 ....
When I search for a memory upgrade at crucial.com The results in include both pc100 and pc133. This surprised me as i did not think the two would be compatible ... .... The system has 64 MB installed .. but I am not sure if it is pc100 or pc133 .... I f I buy pc133 and it has pc100 will the two memory sticks play nice?? cheers cw |
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"code_wrong" wrote in message
... " The system has 64 MB installed .. but I am not sure if it is pc100 or pc133 ... I f I buy pc133 and it has pc100 will the two memory sticks play nice?? " Run Everest Home Edition and it will tell you. http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...ng=en&pageid=1 |
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If the type of memory is correct, usually adding faster memory to a computer
than what it needs isn't a problem. Some computers have been known to get picky, but it usually works. Basically what happens is that the motherboard is programmed to wait a certain number of milliseconds for the memory to be ready. The memory has to be fast enough to be ready in that time frame. If it's ready early, that's usually no problem. In fact, I would venture to guess that even if you put pc100 memory in, it will be ready before the motherboard comes back to check on it. There is probably a small (very, very small) overlap built in for safety. The reason I say usually is, as mentioned above, there are some motherboards that just don't like it for some reason. I've also seen problems with two different brands of memory in the same motherboard, although if they were placed in the motherboard separately they both worked fine. I don't know what causes these sort of problems. Fortunately, they don't occur often. -- Wayne Morgan "code_wrong" wrote in message ... Hi, a friend has a Packard Bell Club 50 .... When I search for a memory upgrade at crucial.com The results in include both pc100 and pc133. This surprised me as i did not think the two would be compatible ... .... The system has 64 MB installed .. but I am not sure if it is pc100 or pc133 ... I f I buy pc133 and it has pc100 will the two memory sticks play nice?? cheers cw |
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"code_wrong" wrote in
: Hi, a friend has a Packard Bell Club 50 .... When I search for a memory upgrade at crucial.com The results in include both pc100 and pc133. This surprised me as i did not think the two would be compatible ... .... The system has 64 MB installed .. but I am not sure if it is pc100 or pc133 ... I f I buy pc133 and it has pc100 will the two memory sticks play nice?? cheers cw Crucial is pretty smart about this kind of thing. It is their business so if you gave them correct information, they will stand behind it. |
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PC100 memory will work with a 133 Mhz bus, but PC133 memory will not work with a 100 Mhz bus. If you have a 100 Mhz bus you can mix PC100 and PC133 memory. It is common to have problems with memory chips that are higher density than your motherboard chipset is designed for. If you install a 256 MB DIMM with 4 chips it might not work or recognize only 128 MB. It would be more likely that a 8 chip DIMM will work. code_wrong wrote: Hi, a friend has a Packard Bell Club 50 .... When I search for a memory upgrade at crucial.com The results in include both pc100 and pc133. This surprised me as i did not think the two would be compatible ... .... The system has 64 MB installed .. but I am not sure if it is pc100 or pc133 ... I f I buy pc133 and it has pc100 will the two memory sticks play nice?? cheers cw -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:22:50 GMT, Mike Walsh
wrote: PC100 memory will work with a 133 Mhz bus, but PC133 memory will not work with a 100 Mhz bus. Uhh? Not really true, maybe you were thinking of some specific situation? I'd think it more common to assume the opposite, that PC133 would work with the 100MHz bus, unless we're also considering asynchronous buses, in which case some did plus 33 AND minus 33 from FSB speed. If you have a 100 Mhz bus you can mix PC100 and PC133 memory. It is common to have problems with memory chips that are higher density than your motherboard chipset is designed for. If you install a 256 MB DIMM with 4 chips it might not work or recognize only 128 MB. It would be more likely that a 8 chip DIMM will work. True, but then it's up to the user to determine if that's a "problem". If the board can only use 128MB per slot and user installs 256MB of PC133, which is working ok as 128MB and that costs nearly the same as 128MB of PC100, there might be no real incentive to do anything more. |
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"Cuzman" wrote in message ... "code_wrong" wrote in message ... " The system has 64 MB installed .. but I am not sure if it is pc100 or pc133 ... I f I buy pc133 and it has pc100 will the two memory sticks play nice?? " Run Everest Home Edition and it will tell you. http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...ng=en&pageid=1 Thanks guys .. I ordered up 128MB of pc133 .. |
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Sorry, I had it backwards, PC133 will work on a 100 Mhz bus, but PC100 in most cases will not work on a 133 Mhz bus. Good thing we have kony around to catch our mistakes. kony wrote: On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:22:50 GMT, Mike Walsh wrote: PC100 memory will work with a 133 Mhz bus, but PC133 memory will not work with a 100 Mhz bus. Uhh? Not really true, maybe you were thinking of some specific situation? I'd think it more common to assume the opposite, that PC133 would work with the 100MHz bus, unless we're also considering asynchronous buses, in which case some did plus 33 AND minus 33 from FSB speed. -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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