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Hello,
I have an Athlon XP2200+ (1800MHz), running WinXP Professional. I am wanting
to upgrade the RAM in it. I did a test with CPU-Z and found that my
MotherBoard is a BN790E (is that Lex ?). It apparently has a 128 and a 512
chip already installed, making 620RAM total.
I would like to get it up to around the 800 - 1 Gig mark. I assumed that
there would be 4 slots to put the RAM chips into, so i took off the PC cover
before i bought any chips just to make sure. When i looked there were 2
black slots (occupied by PC133 Kingston 512MB in Slot 3, and PC133 "No
Brand" 128MB in Slot 4). The other 2 spare slots are PURPLE !! - i take it
that these are NOT the same PC133 slots and so therefore there is no point
in me buying 2 X 256 PC133 for them ??
Are the purple ones DDR ???? it has "2.5V" engraved on the purple plastic,
if that helps. If they are DDR then i assume i cannot use 2 x DDR chips in
the purple slots AND have the other 2 x PC133 left as they are, or can i ??
I thought you could not mix RAM in the way my PC is (512 in slot 3, and 128
in slot 4) !!.
What type of memory would i need to buy for the 2 purple slots which are
currently empty ??
Just for info, i'll try to give as much info as i can: (hope someone might
make sense of it all !!)
Name: AMD Athlon XP Processor
Code Name: Thoroughbred
Package: Socket A
Spec: AMD Athlon(tm) XP2200+
Family: 6
Model: 8
Steppin: 1
Ext. Family: 7
Ext. Model: 8
Revision: 80 (or B0 ?)
Core Speed: 1807.7MHz
L1 Data: 64 Kbytes
Multiplier: X 13.5
L1 Code: 64 Kbytes
FSB: 133.9MHz
Level 2: 256Kbytes
BusSpeed: 267.8MHz
Motherboard Model: VT8366-8233
Chipset: VIA KT266/333
Southbridge: VIA VT8233A
Sensor: Winbond W83697HF
BIOS: Award Software
Version: 6.00PG
Date: 11/22/2002
Graphic Interface Version: AGP Version 2.0
Transfer Rate: 4x
Max Supported 4x
Aperture Size: 64MB
Side band: Enabled
Memory Type: SDRAM
Size: 640MB
Bank Interleave: 4-Way
Frequency: 133.9MHz
FSB/DRAM: 1:1
CAS#Latency: 3.0 Clocks
I have an Athlon XP2200+ (1800MHz), running WinXP Professional. I am wanting
to upgrade the RAM in it. I did a test with CPU-Z and found that my
MotherBoard is a BN790E (is that Lex ?). It apparently has a 128 and a 512
chip already installed, making 620RAM total.
I would like to get it up to around the 800 - 1 Gig mark. I assumed that
there would be 4 slots to put the RAM chips into, so i took off the PC cover
before i bought any chips just to make sure. When i looked there were 2
black slots (occupied by PC133 Kingston 512MB in Slot 3, and PC133 "No
Brand" 128MB in Slot 4). The other 2 spare slots are PURPLE !! - i take it
that these are NOT the same PC133 slots and so therefore there is no point
in me buying 2 X 256 PC133 for them ??
Are the purple ones DDR ???? it has "2.5V" engraved on the purple plastic,
if that helps. If they are DDR then i assume i cannot use 2 x DDR chips in
the purple slots AND have the other 2 x PC133 left as they are, or can i ??
I thought you could not mix RAM in the way my PC is (512 in slot 3, and 128
in slot 4) !!.
What type of memory would i need to buy for the 2 purple slots which are
currently empty ??
Just for info, i'll try to give as much info as i can: (hope someone might
make sense of it all !!)
Name: AMD Athlon XP Processor
Code Name: Thoroughbred
Package: Socket A
Spec: AMD Athlon(tm) XP2200+
Family: 6
Model: 8
Steppin: 1
Ext. Family: 7
Ext. Model: 8
Revision: 80 (or B0 ?)
Core Speed: 1807.7MHz
L1 Data: 64 Kbytes
Multiplier: X 13.5
L1 Code: 64 Kbytes
FSB: 133.9MHz
Level 2: 256Kbytes
BusSpeed: 267.8MHz
Motherboard Model: VT8366-8233
Chipset: VIA KT266/333
Southbridge: VIA VT8233A
Sensor: Winbond W83697HF
BIOS: Award Software
Version: 6.00PG
Date: 11/22/2002
Graphic Interface Version: AGP Version 2.0
Transfer Rate: 4x
Max Supported 4x
Aperture Size: 64MB
Side band: Enabled
Memory Type: SDRAM
Size: 640MB
Bank Interleave: 4-Way
Frequency: 133.9MHz
FSB/DRAM: 1:1
CAS#Latency: 3.0 Clocks