Help on memory
Could someone help me establish what type of ram I need from the following information from the manual ?
Memory
The mainboard provides 2 sockets for 168-pin unbuffered SDRAM DIMM {Double In-line memory module} modules and supports the momory size up to 1 GB. The socket supports 256MB technology.
Supports S/D {single side/double side}
The bus is 133.
Memory
The mainboard provides 2 sockets for 168-pin unbuffered SDRAM DIMM {Double In-line memory module} modules and supports the momory size up to 1 GB. The socket supports 256MB technology.
Supports S/D {single side/double side}
The bus is 133.
Comments
2 sockets at a max of 256M each....thats 512M Max.
The manual says 1GB.
Maby it means each socket supports 512M....most do now-a-days. Somtimes it doesnt, my 400MHz says 128M per socket when I put in a 256M DIMM.
Yeah just use SD-RAM... but that part about 1gb and 256mb max doesn't seem right.
There was more but I got tired of trying to read it and type.
Each socket supports 32-512 MBS. The total ram can be one gig.
But I don't know why it says it uses 256 MBS technology.
I usually check what ram is needed at Crucial but don't buy from them anymore since they sent me a bad ram. They don't have a listing for Microtel.
At Walmart online it says my Sysmark 746 has 1.2 Gig Processor and I have 1.4 - I was afraid to try what it said because of the differences.
You, IBMWarpster said to someone that you thought mine needed DDR ram so I didn't know.
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I may have to take it apart again to see for sure and I was hoping to avoid that or I guess I could pull the ram and read whatever I could on it.
The manual says:
"The DIMM slot has 2 notch keys 'VOLT and DRAM'.
Was that what you were talking about?
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DDR RAM: Notice the pins are split into 2 portions on the bottom edge.
SDRAM: Notice the pins are split into 3 portions on the bottome edge.
He said it right there.
* Supports four memory banks using 168iping unbuffered DIMM
* Supports a maximum memory size of 1GB (256MB DRAM technology)
* Supports 3.3V SDRAM DIMM
The slots arent the memory banks. If your going to be using 1GB, make sure its double sided RAM and it will work just fine.
Then someone asked him why he said that and he told them he thought mine took DDR.
That was enough to make me want to check.
I think I will pull the ram that's in it and examine it but I'm working on something right now so I'll wait until I'm done.
If I knew for sure I could have went ahead and ordered it.
I'm going to wait until I finish what I'm doing first 'cause I don't want to take a chance on messing it up right now.
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We'll be awaiting the results!
But Microtel DOES use different mainboards/brands in each PC, so consider that.
Nope, they're in DDR.
Not that I know of.
-Q
Hah! It's almost like SIMM modules. 1 bank - one slot (on 486) 1 bank - 2 slots (on Pentium)!
1024MB SDRAM 133MHZ PC
Tomchu85 (4:23:46 PM): uhh ... tell them four banks = 2 slots = divided by 1 GB = 512 MB per slot
FishNET 3 0 0 0 (4:24:07 PM): k
Tomchu85 (4:24:09 PM): and 256 MB DRAM technology should actually read 256 Mbit DRAM technology
Tomchu85 (4:24:10 PM): because
Tomchu85 (4:24:11 PM): each stick
Tomchu85 (4:24:14 PM): has 8 chips per side
Tomchu85 (4:24:18 PM): 8 * 256 Mbits = 256 MB :-)
Tomchu85 (4:24:26 PM): so it supports 256 Mbits chips
Tomchu85 (4:24:36 PM): 2 sided stick = 16 chips * 256 Mbit = 512 MB
Tomchu85 (4:24:40 PM): x 2 slots = 1024 MB
Oh. Only $880. I'll have to get a few of those.
That's quite rare. I had never seen one in any computer catalog.
He also added:
Tomchu85 (4:29:32 PM): but really, tell them to research dram technology and mbits if they don't believe it
Tomchu85 (4:29:33 PM): lol
Tomchu85 (4:29:50 PM): the fact alone that it says it supports 1 GB should be enough
Like, take 2GB DDR, they arent around becuase noone uses more than 1GB chips (1GB x 2 =2GB) in which 2GB is faaaaaar more than enough today.
~IBM