Memory Type for Old AMD K6-2 Motherboard

[PeteJ]

I have on old Tyan Trinity motherboard for the AMD K6-2 350 CPU. It currently used 64 megs of PC-100 CAS-2 memory. Right now I can purchase 256 megs of PC-133 CAS-2 memory for less than or equal to the PC-100 memory. My question is: can PC-133 memory be substituted for the PC-100 memory on this board or combined with the old memory? Is there a voltage difference?
Thanks for any info you may have.
PeteJ

 

[Chuffmaster2k]

It is copmatible, but there is one thing you want to make sure of...

You need to make sure the 256MB of ram is not high density. If it is, it is 256MB on one side of the stick. Older motherboards can not handle this. If you are getting 2 128MB sticks it should be fine... Good Luck.

 

[CTR]

Hey! I used to have a PC just like that! I alwasy had IRQ trouble with my PCI SCSI adapters...Tyan said there were NO problems, and implied that I just might be stupid. Did you ever see anything like that SCSI problem?

 

[PeteJ]

I never have used scsi drives. I had my share of problems with IRQ's even so until I got Win98 SE to replace my old Win 95 SE. Msft seemed to figure out how to cope with the VIA bus master. Thanks for the info on the memory chip. I don't know how the dimm is configured, it doesn't say. Can I leave my old dimm in too?
PeteJ