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More info?)
Ben,
You're a fount of knowledge! I thank you. With the model decrypted maybe I
can find out more on the HP/Compaq site. I remember seeing something like
how you re-wrote the model in a list on the site.
Here's goes nothing! Thanks again.
Budd
<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:41962187.4083218@news.charter.net...
> The sticker on the case tells a lot:
> DPEND-P450/10.0/N4C-6 US
> 6848 CD47 B131
>
> DeskPro EN, 450MHz Pentium II or III, 10GB hard drive, large desktop case.
I
> suspect that the 2001 manufacturing date is perhaps a little too recent.
More
> like '99 or '00. To get a closer approximation of the manufacturing date,
take
> the cover off the case (again), and look for blue markings stamped on the
cover
> or somewhere inside the case. The markings show the date when the
component was
> manufactured.
>
> Compaq once had a lookup by serial number, such as 6848 CD47 B131. But
HPaq
> seems to have taken that all away.
>
> Aida32 identifies the date of the BIOS, which may well have had an update
> produced in 2001, or at least date stamped 2001. (Some BIOS updates have
poor
> quality control and the BIOS programmers do not change supposedly
superficial
> things like date and version, but I suspect that Compaq was better than
most in
> this department.)
>
> www.crucial.com continues to be an excellent source for buying memory on
line
> according to many who have done so. If you can exchange the memory you
now have
> for single-density, do so. As several of us have responded, fairly
generic
> single density memory should work just fine... Ben Myers
>
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:19:13 GMT, "Budd Cochran" <mr-d150@citlinkSPAM.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> ><ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
> >news:4195a17c.21195841@news.charter.net...
> >> ECC registered is a type of DIMM used primarily in servers. "OP" is
the
> >> Original Poster. That's you.
> >
> >Duh, I shoulda guessed that . . . .<BG> Ugh, me need more coffee . .
> >>
> >> 8 chips on BOTH sides of each DIMM would be low density. 8 chips on
ONE
> >side
> >> would be high density. They have different electronic signalling
> >> characteristics, even tho they have the same physical connector.
> >
> >Ok, it looks they're high density chips. Darn.
> >>
> >> High density DIMMs are incompatible with older motherboards, usually
> >Pentium II
> >> or Celeron. Low density DIMMs will work in any motherboard where the
> >speed of
> >> the DIMM is compatible with the processor and front-side bus
requirements.
> >In
> >> other words, PC100 DIMMs will not work in a motherboard which requires
> >PC133, or
> >> with a Pentium III processor which has 133MHz front-side bus... Ben
Myers
> >
> >I used a program called "aida32" to find my computer info and it says the
> >system memory is "64 Mb (PC100 SDRAM)"
> >
> >Now I'm really getting confused . . .I think I'll go back to weaving
baskets
> >. . .
> >
> >I emailed Kingston, told them what's onboard and asked for suggestions .
..
> >.maybe this is what I should have done in the first place. The Compaq
site
> >can't seem to figure out what model I have but according to the aida32
> >program, it was built in '01.
> >
> >Budd
> >
> >
>