Sometimes you get lucky...

[Shroomer]

I decided that I needed to upgrade my 128 meg of RAM in my main system, so I thought I'd take some of the RAM out of my other systems to see how 256 meg would perform in my system. Well, I took the pc133 out of the gateway system that I got as a hand me down. It really ****** the system up, but I did enough testing that I figured the $10-20 upgrade will be worth it till I get DDR.

The good part:

Since I had the pc133 out of the Gateway, I thought I'd try the PC100 I had in an old Cel400 sys I had laying around collecting dust... IT WORKED!!!!! I couldn't believe it!

The REALLY good part:

I abruptly took the pc100 out of the gateway and poped it into my a7v133... 100mhz-110-133 cas3-133 cas2_______CRASH!
Doh!

Oh well... let's see how high she'll go at CAS 3...
137-139-143!!!!! This is where I'm currently testing. I'm a half hour into P95 and still going. I'd try higher, but my other stick of pc133 doesn't like much over 145 anyway.

I'm so happy that if I have no problems I'm gonna just use this ram to keep me at 256 till I go DDR.

Not bad for an over 2 1/2 year old stick of generic PC100 RAM!!!

Moral: Even if you think it won't work... Try it!

Keep the language clean in here. Thanks.

Thelemac

[Shroomer]

DAMN! 45 minutes in and a round off error... Going down to 140 and crossing fingers.

[oc jason]

that is GREAST man try 142 and if its stable you are LUCKY, and CONGRATS on getting 133 first off LOL:D

[Shroomer]

1: Sorry about the language... Will be better next time. I was a little euphoric at the time.

2: 140 is working great. After I get Mandrake downloaded I'll do a test for an extended period of time. And I'll report on the chip brand when I get it to it's max.