I'm working on an old HP Pavillion 6330 that was given to me. And yes, it really is running 98SE with 48 meg of RAM. :-) First, it sure could use more memory. It has one 32meg and one 16meg stick of PC66 now. I have three 64meg sticks of PC100 just lying around. If I put one or two in the HP is it likely to work? At slower speed, of course. I don't want to spend much, if any, cash on this thing. Second, the CPU fan is shot. Can't replace just the fan on the tinny heatsink combo in here. Any idea where to find a Socket 7 heatsink and fan that isn't two or more inches tall? Room is tight and I'm sure this processor doesn't need a two inch tall heat sink. Everthing I see when I search the net is way too tall for the space available.

The RAM may or may not work but trying it won't break anything and is easy to try so why not? You can get a HSF for this CPU at Radio Shack.

Thanks, Badboy. I've been to Radio Shack and have the HP back together and running fine. It's ready to go now to someone who only wants a word processor or a simple game machine.

Great, I'm glad it worked out. Did the PC100 64MB RAM work?

I tried one stick without success. Didn't bother to try either of the others. All are different brands, but two are known to have worked together in another computer at one time. So, it's still running 98SE with 48megs of RAM, with two of those taken by video. Not a big problem. It only has Windows with few of the optional features, and MS Office 2000 installed. It's not a keeper for me, don't need it. It was just something to play with, I already have six working computers ranging from a DX4 100 to an Athlon 1.4.