$55 for 256MB SDRAM for L866R?

[Josh-]

It's for a friend. Just wondering if its a fair price.
-J

[Mt_Goat]

I have a 512MB stick of PC133 I will sell you for $50 shipped. How's that for a fair price? Check out my Dealer Ratings. (http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5970)

[Josh-]

Is it combatible with the L866R? L866R is like..5 years old.

[Mt_Goat]

Josh- had this to say
Is it combatible with the L866R? L866R is like..5 years old.
Not sure if they did anything weird to them or not. Most boards will work with the upgraded 133 while some need a certain spec. Maybe someone here can answer the compatability thing.

[drasnor]

What chipset is it on? If it has a 440xx, the largest module it can take is a double-sided 256MB module (16x16MBit chips). The 440xx chipsets won't do 32MBit chips, so 512MB and single-sided 256MB modules are incompatible. That isn't entirely true, they'll probably show up as 128MB modules, but you won't be able to get any more out of them.

I had this problem with my Asus P2B-B, and have three 256MB PC150 32Mbit modules I can't really do anything with. That's overkill for your Dell, but if anyone is looking for some PC150 for something with an i815 chipset (or clone), drop me a line.

-drasnor :fold:

[Josh-]

Ohh..I understand what your saying..

I guess thats just another reason why intel sucks now isn't it. -.-

edit:
addition to post -

I'll check her board out and stuff when I get a chance. If the problem isn't resolved with her computer, I'll probably go over this weekend to check it out. Thanks for the help. I'm almost positive its a memory error, I can't memtest it though, freezes when browser opens. From the diagnoses I could convey(that the right word?) from my house, this is what I came up with:

Sys Resources: 54%
Phys Mem: 63,756kb
RAM: 63.0MB
HardDrive:9.3gig
Vid card: Intel(r)82810E Graphics Controller
Oper. Sys: Windows 98

Trying to make sure no video discrepentcies, ect.

[drasnor]

Josh- had this to say
Ohh..I understand what your saying..

I guess thats just another reason why intel sucks now isn't it. -.-

At the time, AMD sucked hardcore. The K6, K6-2, K6-3, and SlotA K7 took it up the @$$ from the Pentium II and Pentium III. The Super7 memory controllers supported the same memory types as their Intel Slot1 counterparts, but were much slower. AMD hasn't been good until very recently. Intel didn't start sucking until Pentium 4.

-drasnor :fold:

[drasnor]

She has an Intel i810 chipset. I'm tempted to say you're wasting your time (that chipset sucks, 440BX and i815 were a quantum leap better), but I play with a lot of old computers others would say are a waste of time (like my PS/2 model 9577). The i810 supports 32MBit chips, so all unbufferred non-ECC PC133 will work.

EDIT: BTW, the i810 has integrated graphics, which uses a portion of your system RAM for VRAM. If it were a memory problem, you probably wouldn't have display.

-drasnor :fold:

[Josh-]

Okie dokie. Any clue to how much memory the bored will max out about? I'd really like to get it above 64MB of ram lol

[drasnor]

Josh- had this to say
Okie dokie. Any clue to how much memory the bored will max out about? I'd really like to get it above 64MB of ram lol

It'll take 512MB per DIMM slot.

-drasnor :fold:

[Josh-]

I'm going to run memtest on it as soon as I can. Then I'll now for sure.