Gentlemen,
Thank you for some very useful advice and links.
State of play is this.....
The machine is elderly, currently working with a pair of 128 MB modules - and doing reasonably well in its intended role as a home fileserver. "There are those" who insist on using it as a desktop, and get...
The DIMMs are new to me - and unfortunately the machine won't POST with either of them installed. This gives me a snag with testing them as recommended.
The stickers in question are printed paper labels stuck on the end of the DIMMs.
Why do I ask the question? Because I don't understand the...
I've got a couple of SDRAM DIMMS, each bearing a sticker which says 512 MB PC133.
Each has 16 chips on, marked 5225405BTTAT PC100-222-6.
Would I be right in thinking the sticker is not being entirely honest?
A.
I knew it wouldn't be unanimous, but that feels like a good collection of thoughtful and useful advice.
I understand what you mean about downgrade being cheaper than upgrade Rob, but to be honest, I think I'm going to be in trouble with the family if this isn't more or less right first time...
Looks like I'm going to get to buy a new laptop to add to our existing home network (two elderly 98SE boxes, plus one running XP Home SP2). New machine likely to be used for browsing, occasional office work (including the odd bit of engineering spreadsheeting) and lightweight gaming (at the...
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