Memory for Hewlett Packard machine?

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merrimackjay

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Hello,

My girlfriend has some kind of crappy Hewlett Packard Pavilion XE783. It came with a celeron processor (700mhz I believe), 30gb hard drive, and 64MB of memory. Oh, and it came with WindowsME.

Anyways its getting older so everything was slowing down to a crawl, and she hates winME. When her semester ended I took it home so I could reformat it for her and install win98se. Well the other day I had the theory that I should just install win2000 instead.... until I found out that it had 64mb of memory.

2 questions:

1. Would win2000 run ok on a 700mhz celeron with 64mb of memory? Or should I just install win98se?

2. If I were to buy her 128 or 256mb of memory so that win2000 would run ok, how would I know what kind of memory to buy? Or would I have to order directly from HP?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

-Jay
 
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Schadenfroh

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1. run 98, 64mb kills 2k
2. go to www.crucial.com and select your hp computer from their list and buy your memory from new egg once you have the model number of the memory you need
 
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MasterHoss

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According to Crucial, you'll need PC100 SDRAM ... "older" PC133 may be used in the system and default to PC100 specs.

Win2k Pro will run with the current set up.. 128MB is recommended however. I still don't know that your girlfriend will like the results. Win98SE would be nice for her current set up, but the OS should be cycled out from official Microsoft support within the next few years (I believe they have a 7 year support cycle for OSes????)

In any case, I would buy 2 x 128MB PC100 SDRAM for her and install Win2k.

edit: Hmm... Crucial is selling their 128MB PC133 cheaper than the 128MB PC100 sticks... go ahead and try the PC133 in that case and if it doesn't work, just swap them later (but PC133 should work since it's listed on the website). Also, get the CL2 PC133 SDRAM as it is the same price as CL3 PC133 SDRAM.
 
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merrimackjay

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Awesome, thanks.

I will buy some PC133 SDRAM... I just can't figure out if I should get her:

option 1: one stick of 128MB PC133 Crucial for $28 shipped from newegg
option 2: two sticks of 128MB PC133 Crucial for $56 shipped from newegg
option 3: one stick of 256MB PC133 Kingston ValueRAM for $37 shipped from newegg

Either way... should I add the new RAM to her existed 64MB chip, or chuck that RAM and use only the new stuff?

Thanks.

-Jay

ps Microsofts OS support cycle is pretty lame
 
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MasterHoss

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Honestly, any of your 3 options would be fine. I'm sure that 64MB stick from HP is CAS3 PC100 SDRAM. Personally, I'd go with option 3--then call the new 256 stick DIMM 1 and the old 64 stick DIMM 2.
 
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RedFox1

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Hey Jay,

You might search the For Sale/For Trade forum too....they generally seem to have an abundance of PC133.

I see a couple with 256MB for ~$25 (including shipping)

-Russ
 
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redbeard1

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Something to consider, is that some dell's and hp's purposely wrote their bios's to only work with 100 mhz dimm's. If the SPD chip on the ram is reported to the bios as 133, it won't boot.

Another issue to be concerned with is that newer 133mhz ram from most makers won't work in intel based chipsets. Crucial's 133 ram, if it is listed for that system, will.
 
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Originally posted by: redbeard1
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Another issue to be concerned with is that newer 133mhz ram from most makers won't work in intel based chipsets. Crucial's 133 ram, if it is listed for that system, will.
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That's new to me... You mean BX, 815 and early 845? What have they changed on the industry standard PC133 that it won't work? LINK???
 
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jjyiz28

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Originally posted by: merrimackjay
Hello,

My girlfriend has some kind of crappy Hewlett Packard Pavilion XE783. It came with a celeron processor (700mhz I believe), 30gb hard drive, and 64MB of memory. Oh, and it came with WindowsME.

Anyways its getting older so everything was slowing down to a crawl, and she hates winME. When her semester ended I took it home so I could reformat it for her and install win98se. Well the other day I had the theory that I should just install win2000 instead.... until I found out that it had 64mb of memory.

2 questions:

1. Would win2000 run ok on a 700mhz celeron with 64mb of memory? Or should I just install win98se?

2. If I were to buy her 128 or 256mb of memory so that win2000 would run ok, how would I know what kind of memory to buy? Or would I have to order directly from HP?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

-Jay
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HOLD IT!!!! my friend has a HP pavilion system too, 700 celly, 64mb, 20 gig hd and came with ME also. i put in a 128 stick hoping to increase it to 192 but only recognized 128 total. im thinking also that your MB also only supports 64mb ram sticks, and nothing higher. check HP's site.
 
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merrimackjay

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Awesome RedFox, thanks.

I'm going to buy some PC100 from the FS/FT forum.

Thanks everyone else for your replies as well.

-Jay
 
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