From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 14:16:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62F916A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:16:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from blarf.homeip.net (adsl-209-204-188-56.sonic.net [209.204.188.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B00F43D62 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:16:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@blarf.homeip.net) Received: by blarf.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 92959253C2; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:15:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:15:58 -0800 From: Alex Zepeda To: David Kelly , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031220221558.GB9851@blarf.homeip.net> References: <20031218092911.GB22547@blarf.homeip.net> <0F14E838-3165-11D8-A397-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0F14E838-3165-11D8-A397-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: zipzippy@sonic.net Subject: Re: Memory advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:16:39 -0000 On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:18:32AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > When you order from Crucial, order from the Macintosh section. Or order > from a Macintosh vendor such as http://www.macsales.com/ Actually, Crucial's web site is just inaccurate. Their Mac section only lists 66mhz SDRAM as being compatible (at least WRT timing) with the Beige G3 (which is incorrect as I've proven by running these sticks at half capacity). > Also for a long time PC133 was backwards compatible with PC100 but then > something changed and not all PC133 worked in PC100 systems. The P6DGE does indeed support a 133mhz FSB. According to Crucial all PC133 ram will work at 100mhz. As it turns out, my suspicions were probably correct. It was a chip density issue. Their e-mail support claimed the latest BIOS update would allow the high density chips to work with the P6DGE (not true), and their phone support said that the high density sticks I had ordered were not compatible with the P6DGE at all and I should have ordered the memory through their memory selector. Unfortunately for them I did order through their selector, and their selector did not list any low density sticks. Their web site offers no way to determine which are which. Last time I order from them I suppose. - alex