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mixing pc100 and pc66 ram
Name: agenttan Date: January 10, 2004 at 16:12:12 Pacific OS: win 98 CPU/Ram: 500mhz
Comment:
if the cpu frequency is 100mhz and you use pc66 ram, what symptoms of computer instability would happen?
Name: keefabear666 Date: January 10, 2004 at 17:06:34 Pacific
Reply:
it wont boot up
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Response Number 2
Name: Sokko Date: January 10, 2004 at 17:26:25 Pacific
Reply:
If you insert a PC66 stick alongside a PC100 stick, the PC100 will slow down to the speed of a PC66. So don't do it unless the amount of RAM you gain negates the speed decrease, and it would have to be a LOT of RAM to compensate for that.
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Response Number 3
Name: agenttan Date: January 10, 2004 at 19:06:19 Pacific
Reply:
no lie if u dont know, it does boot up.
i was just curious because i did do this 2 days ago, and now the computer randomly freezes
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Response Number 4
Name: jam Date: January 10, 2004 at 20:37:17 Pacific
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Sokko is not quite correct...the PC100 will only slow to PC66 speed if you have your BIOS memory setting to AUTODETECT or SPD. If you set it manually to PC100 (for example), it will try to run both sticks as PC100, regardless of what their specs are. The PC66 may or may not run at PC100 speed...but the PC100 "should" run at PC66
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Response Number 5
Name: Free Weasel Date: January 11, 2004 at 05:23:58 Pacific
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Freezing is a very likely thing that can happen when you run a ram module 50% above the speed it's designed to!
But try to set it at lower cas settings and reduce the agp aperature size in the bios. That may work or may not. At least we had a pc100 stick running at 133MHz in a neighbours computer for years and it worked well until we upgraded from 128MB to 512MB and then we bought PC133 CL2 because we also overclocked his Pentium3 800MHz. Now that 128MB work fine at 112MHz in my old slot1 board!
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Response Number 6
Name: agenttan Date: January 11, 2004 at 12:59:47 Pacific
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is there any way to overclock the pc66 to pc100 ram?
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Response Number 7
Name: agenttan Date: January 11, 2004 at 19:35:59 Pacific
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its an intel 440bx cpu, im not sure what the motherboard is
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Response Number 8
Name: agenttan Date: January 12, 2004 at 16:43:20 Pacific
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bump =|
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Response Number 9
Name: agenttan Date: January 14, 2004 at 16:46:24 Pacific
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