On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a > > > > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? > > > > > > Nope. > > > > I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would > > still be usable when I get a new motherboard someday. > > > > I ran memtest86 for about 24 hours, no problems, and have been running > > fine ever since (several months). > > > > I started having problems recently (filesystem errors and signal 11) so I > > ran memtest86 again and one of the dimms has gone bad. I took it out and > > put back in an old regular 32MB dimm, and the two mixed togeter (160MB) > > ran memtest86 fine overnight, and seems OK after about a week. > > > > I don't know why the dimm went bad. I wouldn't think it's because the > > 100/66MHz issue. > > I would surprise me too. I also run PC100 memory at 66 MHz with future > upgrades in mind.
old SDRAM had 5V voltage, PC100 is 3.3V OK
