Hello, hope I am asking in the right place. I am trying to find out
about my mother board to possably upgrade memory and lost the paper
work. the computer was upgraded a while ago and I can not go to the
manufacture site. I have looked at the motherbord and see what looks
like via vt8233 but can't see anything on there site.
Thank You
VT2233 is a southbridge, most commonly used on motherboards
with late PC133 or early DDR266/PC2100 memory support (Like
via KT266/A or KM266 chipsets.
The southbridge alone is not enough to ID which memory yours
uses, but the more likely is PC2100. The manufacturer's
name or model number should be stamped on the board itself,
often under the AGP or upper PCI slot, or on the right of
the CPU socket or memory slots.
Alternatively you can (unplug system first then ...) remove
the memory and identify it. Briefly, if it has two notches
on the bottom it'd be PC133, one notch would be PC2100. If
it uses PC2100, you can buy PC2700 or PC3200 instead if you
like, as they do have more stability margin and reuse
potential in the future (and nearly if not same price
today).
What size module did you intend to buy? At a minimum it
should support 512MB per slot, if PC2100 then possibly 1GB
per slot. Identifying the motherboard would still be good,
and then going to manufacturer's 'site to download the
manual and associated documentations/bios/drivers/etc, while
they're still available... some low-end boards aren't
supported very long and the longer one waits to find
manual/etc on cheap boards, the harder it becomes to find
these things.
