I haven't seen many machines that require match pairs (usually using 72-pin EDO) much past the pentium era...everything after that seemed to go to sdram for obvious performence reasons. On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:54:08PM -0500, Anthony Creapeau wrote: > I was just taking on some precaution here. Since he was talking about an old > machine there's a possibility that he could run into this problem. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of John Heim > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:42 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: about the latest ubuntu > > I haven't seen a machine that required matching memory sticks in years. I > have mixed and matched them in many different machines over the past > several years. I can't say there doesn't still exist machines that require > matching sticks. But I don't think that is common. In fact, right before I > sat down to read my email, I took apart a Dell 4100 and it had a 256 Mb > stick and a 128 Mb stick and it recognized both for what they were. We're > sending this old beast off to be junked and it's a 1 Ghz machine. That is > why I think you can get RAM for a machine like that for next to nothing. > Nobody wants old machines like that any more and you could easily salvage > the RAM. > > But if anyone takes my advice about upgrading RAM by going to a used > computer store, it probably wouldn't hurt to pull the existing stick out and > take it with you. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <talmage at somtel.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:16 AM > Subject: RE: about the latest ubuntu > > > > That's not necessarily true. > > It's system dependent. > > Factors include Bios and motherboard. > > To find out what, and how to add memory, the best source is your > > computer, or motherboard's, manual. > > > > At 10:25 AM 4/4/2007, you wrote: > >>If your going to upgrade memory sticks you need to make sure they're all > >>the > >>same value, (IE. 256 = 2 128 modules or 1 256 module), if you mix > >>different > >>size modules you'll end up with the higher sized memory running at the > >>lowest size in your machine. So, if your running a 256 module and add a > >>128 > >>module you'll still only be running 256 total instead of 384mb. HTH > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Those who don't understand Linux are doomed to reinvent it, poorly. -- unidentified source
