Memory questions for older Compaq computer.

[InlineFive]

I have a friend who is interested in buying some more SDRAM to add to his Presario 5000US. (Duron 750Mhz, probably a VIA) However he is trying to find some SDRAM and he settled on 256MB Kingston PC133. I don't know if the chipset will support the new higher density module.

Will it work? Links to educate me? 🙂

-Aidan

 

[spherrod]

I think so

http://www.crucial.com/uk/stor...+5000US.&submit=Go

 

[InlineFive]

I think so too but does anyone have a definate answer?

 

[Blain]

Intel chipsets were the picky ones about memory density.

 

[MulLa]

Try this

 

[thermalpaste]

YES. IT Should support a 256 mb pc-133 stick. The older chipsets are very picky when it comes to single mem-modules higher than 256 megs (like a 512mb stick). This chipset should support any sd-ram module upto 256 mb per bank.

Intel chipsets were the picky ones about memory density.

I didn't know durons used intel chipsets, thats news for me.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: thermalpaste
YES. IT Should support a 256 mb pc-133 stick. The older chipsets are very picky when it comes to single mem-modules higher than 256 megs (like a 512mb stick). This chipset should support any sd-ram module upto 256 mb per bank.

Intel chipsets were the picky ones about memory density.

I didn't know durons used intel chipsets, thats news for me.

All I meant was that he shouldn't worry about his VIA based MB being picky about what memory it needs. Not that Intel produced any chipsets that ran Durons. 😛