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new(hehe) EDO Ram in an old Gateway

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Aganack1

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I've tried installing addional edo ram in to an old 233mhz p2 system... I bought 4sims at 64mb each, to replace 2 sims of 16mb each. when i installed all four it only comes up as 64mb. The first time it booted it told me to I would need to reinstall Windows(95). Because i didn't have a copy of windows with me i went and installed the the old 2 and 2 new ones and it showed up as 128mb... i would open windows but when i tried to open IE it would restart the computer. so i tried all four new again and it booted but it would lock up when ever i opend the control pannel or Explorer.... Any suggestions... this is for a work computer and the company i work for is really cheap when it comes to computers... so buying a new system is kinda out of my hands.... 🙁

Thanks
 
Ah, yes, I've had that problem as well.

I had a 2x32 machine, and I added 2x64 to it.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I had to seat them a couple of times, and even then it did not always work.

I think the old gateways were very figgety about what RAM they accept, *especially* in terms of connectors.

The only advice I can give is: reseat them until it works, and then don't touch them until it does not work anymore.

Some guy at gateway told me that you need special EDOs with Zinc contacts. Haven't tried that.
 
I've got a bunch of 200 MHz systems with EDO RAM. Not a single one is capable of handling more than 128 MB (motherboard limitation). Check the manual and see what the max the motherboard can handle.
 
Let's see, what could it be....could be the sys doesn't like SIMMs over 32 MB each, or over 128MB total (as previously stated 😉) Could need to reseat or install them in a different order.

But, Win95 can't cache more than 64MB anyways....you'd need at least Win98 to take advantage of 256MB of RAM.

Have you tried just 2 of the 64s? See if you can find the sys specs at Gateway's site. It may also not like generic RAM.

g/l

JC
 
OK i've gotten it to work ok with the two new and two old... that config is the fastest... everything works except internet expolore... any ideas... i'm trying to get hold of a win 98 cd but untill i do what should i try
 
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