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Matth · 30-04-2005, 00:42

Everest will also tell you the make/model of the motherboard, and from there, it's a quick visit to Crucial's memory selector - or the motherboard maker's site or a search engine - actually, so far, I think everest's memory slot description has been pretty accurate - most boards seem to have as many slots as it says.

The knottiest problem - though it MAY have gone away with DDR memory, was the module size/bank limit - some systems could not use single sided / high density 256Mb SDRAM DIMMS - the same ones also don't support 512Mb modules, but can run low density / double sided 256Mb and any 128Mb.

Going back further, you can find even worse examples, with bank by bank limits, though that may be pre-Pentium.

I don't suppose that you'll meet anything with SIMMS - not worth updating anyway - though SIMMS just about staggered into the Pentium era, they were obsolete by Pentium 2.

30-04-2005, 00:42	#15
Matth Inactive Join Date: Mar 2004 Services: BB:M, TV:XL, Phone:M, Loyalty Posts: 2,516	Re: Memory tools Everest will also tell you the make/model of the motherboard, and from there, it's a quick visit to Crucial's memory selector - or the motherboard maker's site or a search engine - actually, so far, I think everest's memory slot description has been pretty accurate - most boards seem to have as many slots as it says. The knottiest problem - though it MAY have gone away with DDR memory, was the module size/bank limit - some systems could not use single sided / high density 256Mb SDRAM DIMMS - the same ones also don't support 512Mb modules, but can run low density / double sided 256Mb and any 128Mb. Going back further, you can find even worse examples, with bank by bank limits, though that may be pre-Pentium. I don't suppose that you'll meet anything with SIMMS - not worth updating anyway - though SIMMS just about staggered into the Pentium era, they were obsolete by Pentium 2.