re: 512 sdram Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 12:45 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6528 messages posted) Exactly what brand name and model number is the computer or the motherboard?? Knowing the chip specs won't help if we don't know what machine or motherboard they are going into. Hardware questions are really off topic here but we try if we know and can give a quick answer. Dual channel ready isn't the old first generation SDRAM types as there were no dual channel boards for the old SDRAM, so we might not be thinking on the same terms! Dual channel ready is the newer SDRAM which is also DDR, DDR2 and the newer DDR3 type. Many people don't realize DDR "IS" SDRAM but an upgraded and faster version. DDR is also keyed differently and won't fit in the original SDRAM slots, so if it says, dual channel ready, it is has to be DDR ram or it is mislabeled/misrepresented. The old SDRAM is all but impossible to find and will be more costly than DDR RAM, if you can find it, and will in all likelyhood be used as it hasn't been manufactured in years! All that being said, you have to check the size limits and configuration restrictions of the machine or the motherboard, as hardware manufacturers customize them to different support levels, mostly to make cheaper boards, especially for the big OEM companies. The BIOS is also customized to fit these machines and/or motherboards. If you have 4 machines that act the same, then you have a hardware issue that only the manufacturer could help you with, or give you info on what the machine of the motherboard will support. Websites like Crucial or Kingston will have a tool to let you know what memory you need and the maximum amounts on a system or motherboard, unless it is a very obscure and unpopular model. Written in response to: re: 512 sdram (chad: Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 11:52 am) Responses to this message: re: 512 MB sdram vs. MB Chipset BIOS (Kiwi: Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 10:30 am) All messages in this thread [show all] 512 sdram (chad: Wed, May 13, 2009, 5:57 pm) re: 512 sdram (Steve: Wed, May 13, 2009, 6:37 pm) re: 512 sdram (DanTheMan: Wed, May 13, 2009, 11:40 pm) re: 512 sdram (Steve: Thu, May 14, 2009, 6:26 am) re: 512 sdram (C K: Thu, May 14, 2009, 6:39 am) re: 512 sdram (chad: Thu, May 14, 2009, 11:52 am) re: 512 sdram (C K: Thu, May 14, 2009, 12:45 pm) re: 512 MB sdram vs. MB Chipset BIOS (Kiwi: Thu, Jun 11, 2009, 10:30 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum