KPhoenix

Okay, I am completely lost and I feel like a total idiot. I'm dumb with this stuff so please have mercy. I recently took out the SD-RAM from my PC because I plan on puttting in more, or different SD-RAM. I have the RAM from my PC here which reads:



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Then just recently I tried to insert SD-RAM along with the above one but ended up getting garbled shit on my screen at startup. It was one from these next two cards that I pulled out of an old IBM computer:



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This was the one I tried to insert: ------------------------------



Then I have two more from an old Dell computer which I haven't tried yet because I don't know what the hell I'm doing:



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The above two contain 192MB RAM total.
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So can someone explain to me what I can do to get the highest combination of two SD-RAM cards for the most RAM with having compatibility?

AMD Fanboy

well, i know that this isn't really what you wanted to hear, but.............. Upgrading a machine with SDRAM is really pointless. If it uses SDRAM, it's likely that the CPU is pretty old and that it wouldn't support anything better.

Regardless, i'm going to make a suggestion. Perhaps 128MB is the Max memory that the board will support. some of the older boards required you to install memory in PAIRS, so you would have to have SIMMs of equal size placed in the correct slots. I know that EDO RAM was like that. EDO is what came right before SDRAMs. If you need to purchase some more memory for that, good luck. When you can find SDRAMs, they're expensive. I can certainly understand if you just want to tinker though. you CAN run windows XP on there though with 128MB of RAM. Minimum Requirements for XP are 64MB of RAM and 128MB Recommended. Windows 98 is another choice if you aren't going to be using this for anything on the internet.

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