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yahoosh   08-18-2002 at 05:42:33 PM

Hi I have a celeron 700 MHZ with 128 MB SDRAM , Those 128 MB come in one single DIMM and are installed on socket one ( I still have two free sockets ) .Now I have taking from an old PII a DIMM which is 64 MB and is Compact , My question is : can I just add those 64 MB to my memory ? is it going to work or am I going to fry my Mobo ? does it matter that this memory is proprietary memory (compact ) ?
THANX for any amnswers....

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CMRvet   08-18-2002 at 07:12:02 PM
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Motherboards for Celeron 700 has a memory bus of 66 or 100 MHz. On the other hand, PII from 350 MHz and up had a bus of 100 Mhz so the memory should be fine.
Just install it and test. You can’t produce any damage.


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yahoosh   08-18-2002 at 08:58:10 PM
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No the PII I am talking about is 266 or even down ....

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CMRvet   08-18-2002 at 09:41:55 PM
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Do you know what is the bus of the memory installed with the Celeron? It could be 66 or 100 MHz
I think that the 64 MB stick is 66 MHz.

So just install the memory on the Celeron System and test it. If the system doesn’t boot just take out the stick and reboot again.


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yahoosh   08-19-2002 at 03:30:54 AM
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I think my celeron system has a FSB of 66MHZ but I am not quite sure ...So is it going to do any harm if the BUS is 100 and the DIMM stick runs at 66 ( I know that the other way around is OK)

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CMRvet   08-19-2002 at 04:07:51 AM
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No problem, if you try to run 66 MHz RAM at 100 MHz the computer simply doesn't boot up. Or at least you will have stability problems.
BTW, what motherboard do you have?

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Crashman   08-19-2002 at 09:43:25 AM
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You shouldn't have a problem. Most Compaq PII's used SDRAM. But there is the possibility of it being an EDO DIMM, which would still fit but probably wouldn't work. No harm done.

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