about the latest ubuntu

[Alex Snow]

I haven't seen many machines that require match pairs (usually using 
72-pin EDO) much past the pentium era...everything after that seemed 
to go to sdram for obvious performence reasons.

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:54:08PM -0500, Anthony 
Creapeau wrote:
> I was just taking on some precaution here. Since he was talking about an old
> machine there's a possibility that he could run into this problem.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of John Heim
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:42 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: about the latest ubuntu
> 
> I haven't seen a machine that required matching memory sticks in years. I
> have  mixed and matched them in many different machines over the past
> several years.  I can't say there doesn't still exist machines that require
> matching sticks. But I don't think that is common. In fact, right before I
> sat down to read my email, I took apart a Dell 4100 and it had a 256 Mb
> stick and a 128 Mb stick and it recognized both for what they were. We're
> sending this old beast off to be junked and it's a 1 Ghz machine. That is
> why I think you can get RAM for a machine like that for next to nothing. 
> Nobody wants old machines like that any more and you could easily salvage
> the RAM.
> 
> But if anyone takes my advice about upgrading RAM by going to a used
> computer store, it probably wouldn't hurt to pull the existing stick out and
> take it with you.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <talmage at somtel.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:16 AM
> Subject: RE: about the latest ubuntu
> 
> 
> > That's not necessarily true.
> > It's system dependent.
> > Factors include Bios and motherboard.
> > To find out what, and how to add memory, the best source is your
> > computer, or motherboard's, manual.
> >
> > At 10:25 AM 4/4/2007, you wrote:
> >>If your going to upgrade memory sticks you need to make sure they're all 
> >>the
> >>same value, (IE. 256 = 2 128 modules or 1 256 module), if you mix 
> >>different
> >>size modules you'll end up with the higher sized memory running at the
> >>lowest size in your machine. So, if your running a 256 module and add a 
> >>128
> >>module you'll still only be running 256 total instead of 384mb. HTH
> >
> >
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