[ale] RAM and Harddrives

Jon Reagan jreagan1990 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 06:52:39 EDT 2008


Thanks, everyone.  The memory (RAM) apparently has 4 chips, but I noticed I
had only half the RAM when I removed just one.

Is there any place I can look to see the maximum harddrive size that I could
get?  (in BIOS, etc.)

Thanks,

Jon

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:39 AM, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 26 April 2008, JK wrote:
> > James Sumners wrote:
>
> > > 2) RAM for that thing is going to be pricey. If memory serves, it will
> > > be 72 pin SIMMs[1]. And you might have to install them in pairs. So
> > > you wouldn't be able to install just one 128MB chip. You would have to
> > > install two 128MB chips at the same time. I never had a PPro so I
> > > can't say that for certain.
> > >
> > > [1] --
> http://crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=8F6080A28C0EB3BE
> >
> > eBay might be worth a shot, as well.  Though you may have to buy five
> > sticks to get two working ones.
>
> Or possibly computer shows. Another problem the OP may encounter, RAM back
> then was in diffrent densities. Had an old P1 200 that maxed out at 128MB,
> yet I was never able to get it to see more than half of that. Tried
> various
> combinations through the years and never succeeded. In most cases, other
> old
> computers could see the full size so it was not like I was being sold
> mis-labled stuff.
>
> Poor old thing died about a year ago at about 11 years old! RIP <sniff>
> --
> William
>
>
>
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