Memory Question

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Dan Rather

Hello,

I have a Biostar Motherboard (M7NCD). I am trying to figure what type
of memory I have installed. When my computer boots it says memory 266.
If I run Aida32, and run a bench mark test it groups my memory with
the PC2100 type memory. Belarc Advisor does not give accurate
information either. Is there some other way to get the answer I need?
The company that built my system went out of business. Any advice
would be gratefully appreciated.

Thank you
 
Run AIDA32 and click on "SPD" under "Motherboard", if
that's not what you're already doing. That'll tell you true.
(BTW, PC2100 and 266 MHz DDR memory are the same
thing.)

-- Bob Day
 
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Hello,

I have a Biostar Motherboard (M7NCD). I am trying to figure what type
of memory I have installed. When my computer boots it says memory 266.
If I run Aida32, and run a bench mark test it groups my memory with
the PC2100 type memory. Belarc Advisor does not give accurate
information either. Is there some other way to get the answer I need?
The company that built my system went out of business. Any advice
would be gratefully appreciated.

Thank you
Click to expand...

PC-1600 = 100 MHz FSB = DDR200 = 1.6 gigabytes/sec
PC-2100 = 133 MHz FSB = DDR266 = 2.1 GB/s
PC-2700 = 166 MHz FSB = DDR333 = 2.7 GB/s
PC-3200 = 200 MHz FSB = DDR400 = 3.2 GB/s
PC-3500 = 233 MHz FSB = DDR466 = 3.5 GB/s

As you can see, the PC-xxxx moniker is derived from the effective data
rate (at its qualified clock speed). PC-xxxx has a data rate of xxxx
MB/s. The DDRxxx moniker is misleading; its *external* clock rate is
half of xxx.

It can get confusing. The older non-DDR SDRAM DIMMs were called PC-100
and PC-133 which referred to the FSB and not their maximum data rate.
 
Thanks for your help! I guess from what you are telling me I have
PC2100 memory. I tried using Aida and selected the SPD option under
motherboard and the screen is blank, no information is displayed.
Thank you again.
 
Dan said:
Thanks for your help! I guess from what you are telling me I have
PC2100 memory. I tried using Aida and selected the SPD option under
motherboard and the screen is blank, no information is displayed.
Thank you again.
Click to expand...

You get that sometimes with Aida32, I think it means the modules themselves
don't have an SPD (Serial Presence Detect) chip on them or it is one that
Aida can't read. Try CPU-Z, it's a good little proggy.
 
Thanks Misfit,

It was able to detect my memory! I have Melco DDR-SDRAM 2700. Thank
you for everyones help. This is a really good newsgroup!
 
Dan said:
Thanks Misfit,

It was able to detect my memory! I have Melco DDR-SDRAM 2700. Thank
you for everyones help. This is a really good newsgroup!
Click to expand...
Cool. Pleased to be of help. There are some good diagnostic proggies out
there and I'm grateful to the people who pointed me in the right direction.
 
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