Pavillion XL766

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I have an older Pavillion XL766. I want to upgrade the memory. The
documentation online says there are three memory banks - each capbable
of taking 256mb of ram for a total of 768mb. I'm sure this
documentation was published before 512 and larger modules were even
made. My question is will the board accomodate a single or dual 512
memory modules or do I have to stick with the 256 DIMMS?

 

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Likely 256 is a physical restriction. Also likely that it must be single
density (two sided).

Tom
"rj664" <fdlfh@dfdjlet> wrote in message
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>I have an older Pavillion XL766. I want to upgrade the memory. The
> documentation online says there are three memory banks - each capbable
> of taking 256mb of ram for a total of 768mb. I'm sure this
> documentation was published before 512 and larger modules were even
> made. My question is will the board accomodate a single or dual 512
> memory modules or do I have to stick with the 256 DIMMS?
>
>
>

 

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According to the Via web site, the Via 694X (aka Apollo Pro 133) chipset is
capable of addressing up to 1.5GB of memory. Still, given that the motherboard
is custom-built for HP, I don't think I would chance it unless I could get
myself a single 512MB PC133 DIMM really cheap or for free.

The HP web site states that the maximum memory is 768MB, consisting, of course,
of 3x256MB DIMMs. That's what I would go for... Ben Myers

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:14:55 -0500, "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote:

>Likely 256 is a physical restriction. Also likely that it must be single
>density (two sided).
>
>Tom
>"rj664" <fdlfh@dfdjlet> wrote in message
>news:ae4801pbrqem3c0n9opoj3cpmjjrmd6jj8@4ax.com...
>>I have an older Pavillion XL766. I want to upgrade the memory. The
>> documentation online says there are three memory banks - each capbable
>> of taking 256mb of ram for a total of 768mb. I'm sure this
>> documentation was published before 512 and larger modules were even
>> made. My question is will the board accomodate a single or dual 512
>> memory modules or do I have to stick with the 256 DIMMS?
>>
>>
>>
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