RAM for an ol' gateway

[amdskip]

I have an ol' gateway 2000 p166 with 16MB of DIMM SDRAM. I was wondering if this stuff is pc66 or what the heck gateway put in it. I know that it is the original RAM because I bought the computer new. I just want to add another 32 or maybe 2 32's for sh#ts and gigles. I want to use it for a word processing machine

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[slpaulson]

Go to crucial and use the memory selector to find ram for your model number.

 

[PCAddict]

It oughta be PC66 SDRAM. However, some machines of such vintage had EDO DIMMS. Yes, there was such an animal.

PM me if you have trouble finding out.

 

[Vinny N]

Definitely check out Crucial.com.

I've had the luck of having to upgrade some and boy did the system ever go loopy.

It has a real problem with the new density modules (any 16 chip module such as a 128mb was read as 32mb or less, so 8mbyte chip density is detected as 2mb chip density.) When they did work, or if you ignored this, sometimes there was a small timing discrepancy, and it seems fine but the registry gets corrupted as if the memory. (which it is isn't if it works fine in another system)

 

[amdskip]

crucial page I guess this stuff is edo and can't I change this out because I think my motherboard supports normal dimm sdram. I can put a max of 32mb of sdram in a slot and there is only two total slots. Any ideas? Do I have to use pc66 or will pc100 work?

 

[Special K]

Right now I am running a gateway p133 with 64MB of dimm ram that I had to buy direct from Gateway because nothing I bought myself would work. It turned out that the computer must take PC66 2-clock DIMM SDRAM, which seems to be much more expensive than regular sdram. Every other type of RAM is 4-clock, I heard. What exactly is the difference between 2 and 4 clock, anyway?