1 Oct
2012
1 Oct
'12
2:49 p.m.
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
m?n 2012-10-01 klockan 07:04 -0500 skrev Tothwolf:
Which chipset does it use? I've run into many boards where the
documentation regarding how much memory the board could support was wrong.
Case in point, some of the AMD based Compaq systems state 384MB max (3x
128MB) but in fact actually support 1.5GB (3x 512MB). Back in the days of
Slot 1 CPUs, Dell locked some their motherboards to certain slower models
of P2 CPUs with later BIOS revisions, so it is certainly possible they did
something similar with memory.
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Mouse wrote:
Njaa, my mother's Dell Dimension machine from 1997 only supports 384 M
(3 memory module slots) IF you can get hold of some a bit unusual 128M
memory modules. Dell sold them with 1 or 2 64M modules :-( .
ONe other method is to upgrade the BIOS-after that the MB is a bit more
lenient on the memory module particulars...
Cheap PC sort but Dell still sold them as a workstation, what a way of
devaluation of that word. Oh, this wasn't a 486. I don't recall
what it was. Probably somewhere
in the PII or PIII range; I think I can find the machine and check if
anyone cares.
Any PII and PIII will support at a minimum 512MB of ram (even the
consumer chipsets), but as long as you have swap, 32MB or 64MB would
probably work. It's when you are running the entire OS from media such
as CompactFlash or SD card where you don't have swap that having less
memory can become a challenge with modern software (no X, gui, etc). As
cheap as second hand SDRAM modules are though, adding more memory is
the easiest solution.