Martin Thomas said:
I'm considering upping my memory on my pc. I currently have a couple of
256Mb cards in and looking at putting a minimum of a 1Gb card in.
Current cards are pc2100 256-DDR 266Mhz; can I replace with a different
Mhz rating, say 333 if the motherboard supports it?
Thanks for any support.
P.S. Just had a quick look at motherboard and it looks to be a ECS and
along side the memory slots is written DDR 400 so should this be
running 400Mhz cards?
Get the exact motherboard model number (it should be stencilled on the
board, probably in one of the gaps between the PCI slots) and then
check the actual specs at the ECS website.
You could also use AIDA32 (free) from
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/aida32.zip and it should include both
the make and model of the motherboard in the information it reports.
For one thing you need to ensure that it will in fact support 1 gb RAM
modules. Many boards that are a few years old do not.
As for your new RAM you could have a problem if try to mix your old
RAM with new module(s). RAM from different manufacturers, or even
from the same manufacturer but from different production runs, can
have internal differences in the physical layout and/or the material
composition of the memory modules. These differences can affect the
strength and timing of the signals returned from the RAM and Windows
is sensitive to these differences. They can result in serious error
problems and/or stability issues.
Good luck
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