Memory Wanted

[Kieron]

I have just been given a computer for home and now find myself in a position to look in the mens room once more after about 3 months!

Trouble is its a wee bit slow an ols so I was wonderin if anyone had any old/spare memory or hard drives etc lying around.

Preferably for the same price as I paid for the computer but anything cheap!! WHY??

Kieron

[2quick4u]

Kieron, what memory does it take??

I have a load of old 32mb (pc66) 168 pin dimms about, may give a little boost, you are welcome to a couple of those.

[Clint]

I have a lot of bits lying about as well what machine is it deffo need to know what processor is in it at what speed.

[Kieron]

erm??

I will take a look tonight guys and see what the hell is going on with it? I know that its OLD. It has the old ports in the back (not ps2). The keyboard has the round 5 pin din & the mouse runs off a serial port.

I think that the hard drive is only 1.99G but a friend may have a 4G one I can have?

Its that old the monitor could be green!

Kieron

[sean]

I thought all those green things had been killed

[Kieron]

Right then I have just had a look at this thing and as I am not a computer teckie I am going to explain as I see!!!

The mother board is a TXpro III PCI chipset ???
The processor is an IDT Winchip C6 " 200mhz ???
Memory car is a S3 Virge/dx - 65536K ???

As for what type of plug ins it accepts I haven't a clue! There are two black trips and one is taken up by the modem. These have roughtly 50 induvidual slots! - Then there are 4 white slots. One has the memory card in which in turn has the monitor plugged in?? The other 3 have about 60 odd pins which are smaller than that of the Black slots!

PHEW!

Does any of that make sense??? Prob not

Kieron

[Kieron]

Still wanted!!

164 pin dimm memory cards

Kieron

[2quick4u]

Kieron,

take the lid off and post a pic of the mainboard, will see if I have any bits for you

[Kieron]

I will get on to that tonight Mark, cheers!

Kieron

[Kieron]

Mark,

Just now faxed, sorry for the delay!

Kieron

[Clint]

Mark let me know what it is if your stuck.

[Kieron]

Clint,

I have 2 x 168 Pin DIMMS slots and both are currently filled with 32Mb cards.

Plus there are 4 x 72 pin SIMMS which are empty but apparently hard to come by.

Kieron

[2quick4u]

Kieron,

Stop being so tight

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/memory.htm

128Mb SDRAM 133MHz Major 16.00 18.80

They should do you

[Kieron]

Well it was worth a try!! I guess I will have put my hands in them extremely deep pockets of mine!

Do I want 1 or 2 then??

Kieron

[2quick4u]

Sorry m8 just noticed this post.

Get the 168 pin DIMMS and you only need one to upgrade.

Matched pairs are only needed on the small 72 pin slots -leave them empty.

[Kieron]

I was given 2 16bit 78 pin SIMMS the other day and added them and now I have 98mb of memory... I was told that the two different types of memory wouldn't work together but they seem fine!

Kieron

[wes]

They will work fine Kieron, but be aware that the 2 "banks" of memory will run at different speeds, but it's not a problem.

The reason you need 2 SIMM's (Single Inline Memory Module) is on the Pentium motherboard, the system bus is 64 bit wide. Therefore, the 32 bit SIMMs are installed in pairs. NOTE: never use different speed RAM modules on the Pentium motherboard. All modules must have the same speed.

A DIMM (Dual Inline Memory Module) is 64 bit, so only one is required.

[2quick4u]

That's a result Kieron

I have tried before but not found a board where both types will work together.

[Kieron]

Thanks guys!

I am now on the scrounge for 2 more 16bit ones so it will take it up to 128

I have found some but awaiting for them to arrive.

Kieron