Re: [PLUG] update strategies/partition issue

[Paul <gyoza@comcast.net>]

Art Clemons wrote:

> There is one other possibility considering how older motherboards were 
> put together, and that's that your old ram won't work with your new 
> ram.  I'ld bet you already have PC100 in the slot(s) that work(s), and 
> in some computers the computer would not work unless all the ram had 
> the same speed.  I suspect if you took the new ram and put it where 
> the old ram is, it would work.  Oh yes, one other possibility, your 
> slots may be defective too.
I have shown that the 566MHz Celeron has a 66MHz bus speed, meaning that 
it should use PC66 RAM.  Is PC100 always backwards compatible?  I have 
seen that PC133 isn't always compatible with a PC100 system.

There is a feature, I think it's SPD, which allows the mobo to detect 
the proper settings for the RAM module.  Maybe the two modules are 
giving conflicting information, or one isn't talking at all.
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