A7M266 Memory Questions?

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I understand the board will support up to 2100, but would a 512mb 3200
stick work but just resort to the boards max of 2100, reverse compatible
I assume would be the correct word?
And if the 3200 works(at lower rate) I would assume a 512mb 2100 stick
will work together with it?
 
I understand the board will support up to 2100, but would a 512mb 3200
stick work but just resort to the boards max of 2100, reverse compatible
I assume would be the correct word?
And if the 3200 works(at lower rate) I would assume a 512mb 2100 stick
will work together with it?
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I'm still running my A7M266. I have matched PC2100 sticks, but it's
my understanding that your assumption of the way mismatched SDRAM
works is correct. I've put PC133 sticks in my older Dell along with
PC100, and everything works just fine.
I presume you're asking because you're already in possession of the
PC3200 stick. Correct? You're not going to hurt anything by trying
it, so please let us know how it works.


Ron
 
millerdot90 said:
I'm still running my A7M266. I have matched PC2100 sticks, but it's
my understanding that your assumption of the way mismatched SDRAM
works is correct. I've put PC133 sticks in my older Dell along with
PC100, and everything works just fine.
I presume you're asking because you're already in possession of the
PC3200 stick. Correct? You're not going to hurt anything by trying
it, so please let us know how it works.


Ron
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Yes I have a PC3200 stick same brand (Kingston) as a 512 in this
machine.....I want a gig of memory on the A7M266, memory is being hogged
by certain applications I'm running, and it seems hard to fins 2100 512
sticks.....Be upgrading soon anyway so no need to really invest in lower
memory ya know........
My newer 2.2ghz machine is used for other things. Sucks on memory as
video is on board, need a newer video AGP card.......I have a 3200 &
2100 mixed on the board, works well though just at a lower rate.....Nice
board for a Hewlett Packard, A7V8X-LA UniChrome KM400A.....Only reason
why I bought a proprietary machine, and the price helped.........

I'll try the little experiment & let ya know, pain in the ass to open &
stick my hands in this machine, thought somebody would definately
know.....He, He, lazy bastard ya know........... ;0)

Thanks............
 
ByTor said:
I understand the board will support up to 2100, but would a 512mb 3200
stick work but just resort to the boards max of 2100, reverse compatible
I assume would be the correct word?
And if the 3200 works(at lower rate) I would assume a 512mb 2100 stick
will work together with it?
Click to expand...

The 3200 stick should work just fine, albeit - as you said yourself - at
a lower rate. Whether or not the board will be happy with the two
different sticks at the same time is a question nobody here can answer
but you, by putting both in and having a go at it. If at first you don't
succeed, tr^h^h move them around in the slots, and try conservative mem
settings. Good luck.

RJT
 
[email protected] said:
The 3200 stick should work just fine, albeit - as you said yourself - at
a lower rate. Whether or not the board will be happy with the two
different sticks at the same time is a question nobody here can answer
but you, by putting both in and having a go at it. If at first you don't
succeed, tr^h^h move them around in the slots, and try conservative mem
settings. Good luck.

RJT
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Turns out it all worked fine.....Furthur analyed the 3200 stick and it's
basically capable of 200MHz, 166, & 133 memory timings, hence should be
compatible with a lower stick as long as it's one of those speeds
obviously.

Thanks for the input though...............
 
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