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From: achand on 10 May 2005 00:23

i have a dell optiplex gx 110 . i currently have a pc 100 64 MB ram
installed and i want to add another module which is pc 133 64 mb . When
i add the ram the machine wiil not boot .I suspect that the motherboard
does not support the ram module . Please can you advise me if this can
be true or if there may be other problems to it.

thanks


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achand
From: JANA on 10 May 2005 07:58
With a DELL, you should be calling DELL with that question. Most likely you
will have to order the RAM from them. This sounds like a very old beast! You
would be better off putting your money in to at least a newer used computer.

What are you going to do with an old 100 mHz DELL computer? You can now buy
a PDA cell phone that does more, and even faster!

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JANA
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"achand" <achand.1ot77m(a)news.computerbanter.com> wrote in message
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i have a dell optiplex gx 110 . i currently have a pc 100 64 MB ram
installed and i want to add another module which is pc 133 64 mb . When
i add the ram the machine wiil not boot .I suspect that the motherboard
does not support the ram module . Please can you advise me if this can
be true or if there may be other problems to it.

thanks


--
achand


From: Miss Perspicacia Tick on 10 May 2005 08:52
JANA wrote:
> With a DELL, you should be calling DELL with that question. Most
> likely you will have to order the RAM from them. This sounds like a
> very old beast! You would be better off putting your money in to at
> least a newer used computer.
>
> What are you going to do with an old 100 mHz DELL computer? You can
> now buy a PDA cell phone that does more, and even faster!
>
> --
>
> JANA
> _____


I have read your reply three times and it STILL doesn't make one iota of
sense! Where did he say it was 100MHz (which would refer to the speed of the
CPU)? The GX110 could take CPUs (P3s if memory serves) up to 850MHz. It took
PC100 modules and had a capacity of 512MB.

2x256MB would set him back around ý100. He now has to ask himself what he
would rather spend ý100 - an old system or a new one?

Oh, by the way, I cannot believe you've not heard of Crucial.




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In memory of MS MVP Alex Nichol: http://www.dts-l.org/


From: kony on 10 May 2005 18:14
On Tue, 10 May 2005 05:23:22 +0100, achand
<achand.1ot77m(a)news.computerbanter.com> wrote:

>
>i have a dell optiplex gx 110 . i currently have a pc 100 64 MB ram
>installed and i want to add another module which is pc 133 64 mb . When
>i add the ram the machine wiil not boot .I suspect that the motherboard
>does not support the ram module . Please can you advise me if this can
>be true or if there may be other problems to it.


It sure seems that way, given all you did was add the
memory.

Typicially the problem is the higher density of the PC133
module. It is common for memory resellers to differentiate
the memory density by calling memory "PC100" even if it can
run at 133MHz, merely to denote it is meant for systems
needing lower density memory.

Are you certain the "new" module is only 64MB? That's
rather small for a PC133 module, and even if it is, it would
seem more effective use of a memory slot to put the max in
that that slot can support.
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