From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri May 10 6:24:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from where.org (under.where.org [198.163.215.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A23637B401 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 06:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 80390 invoked from network); 10 May 2002 13:24:41 -0000 Received: from under.where.org (fenrir@198.163.215.5) by under.where.org with SMTP; 10 May 2002 13:24:41 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 07:24:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Fenrir To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Gorm Jorgensen , Subject: Re: Adding memory to an 500au (PC66/100 ECC ?) In-Reply-To: <20020507100153.A538@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Guys, I have a 500a that originally came with 256MB of DEC RAM. I have added 2x256MB PC-133 Registered ECC to the system, and it is still solid as a rock. it seems to be very forgiving on the type of memory used. Good luck, Rob On Tue, 7 May 2002, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:00:00AM +0200, Gorm Jorgensen wrote: > > > > A bit off topic, but my 500au is running low on memory when running kde3 - > > and I want to add more memory without spending all my savings :) > > > > As far as I can see it uses standard SDRAM ECC memory, but is it PC66 or > > PC100 ? > > The original DEC DIMMs are labeled 83MHz so PC100 should do it. Unbuffered, > ECC SDRAM please. I only ever had DEC memory in mine, but reports say it > should work with PC100. > > -- > | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message