Question about ASUS A7V and Micron DIMMs

[x0lution]

I bought an ASUS A7V motherboard recently, as well as some new memory for the board. When I got the board there was a note with it that said you should use PC133 memory with it and NOT to use sticks of RAM with Micron chips that have 75 or 7.5 in the product (or serial, i don't remember) number. Well I bought 256MB of PC133 Micron memory before I got the motherboard (and thus, before I read that note warning against micron memory).

My question though is this: Will my memory work at all? How stable will the system be with that memory if it will work? And if it won't work/won't run stably, anyone know where I can get 256MB PC133 that will work for under $100-$150? Thanks for any info.

PS-
The note also said not to use a windows boot disk made on another computer. I don't think I have the original win98 boot disk, so will that work? If not, where can I get a working copy? Again, thanks.

 

[dogbite]

I have been running my AV7 with 256 megs of Micron pc 133 memory for 3 months,and I must say this is the most stable computer I have ever built,My board is revision 102 ,maybe there is a problem with the later revisions, but I dont know, I would try it and see what happens, You could also go to the asus website and check there..........good luck

 

[Regalk]

I may be that they are referring to 256 MB modules may cause instability - who knows. DO not know why they singled out Micron vs say generic. Anyway I have 3 sticks - 1 Micron 128mb PC133, 1 Toshiba 128mb PC133 and 1 64mb stick of LGS PC100 o/c to PC133. SO if that could work stably then any module could work period. Just ignore the note.

 

[BuckNaked]

I have an A7V, rev. 1.02, running 2 sticks of 128meg Crucial (Micron) PC133 CAS 2, and works fine for me. I remember last year there was a small batch of this memory that was not working with P3's, but haven't heard of any problems with Athlons.

Dave

 

[x0lution]

Well thanks for the info. I'm more confident that i won't have to buy abunch of new memory now. I'll try it, see what happens, and let ya'll know.

 

[BadBrad]

You should'nt need a Win98 boot disk. You acn boot from the CD. Just go into BIOS at startup and make the first boot device the CDROM.