Gateway RAM

tHE vAGGABOND

I should know this one, but.......

I have a humble gateway 166 w. 32 megs ram

When the machine boots it tells me there is 32 megs of NVRAM, in the BIOS it tells me I have 32 megs of SDRAM

Therefore if I put a 32 meg 72 pin sdram chip into my free slot will it work (IE there is no such thing as NVRAM to my knowledge is this gateway ****ing about)

otherwise anyone selling a 32 meg 72 pin sdram chip/ or a 32 meg 72 pin nvram chip

Dr_Teeth

Umm, 72 pin means you have SIMMs, iirc. How many slots do you have, and how many SIMMs are in them? If its 72 pin SIMMs you have, then there should be 2 16MB ones there, with hopefully 2 empty slots. SIMMs have to be put in in equal pairs, so you need 2 more 16MB SIMMs to bring you up to a respectable 64MB in total..

Teeth.

gandalf

Errr I used to work for Gateway. If you have SDRAM its 168 pin. Have you opened the case and checked what size the Simms are. If its 72 pin then it should be EDO non-parity it has to go in pairs (you have 2 banks of 2 Slots). If its SDRAM be careful as the first Gateways to use SDRAM used a non-standard version of this memory, can be put in single pieces (you will have 2 or 3 slots).

I would check with Gateway Tech support quoting your serial number they will be able to tell you whats in there (they should be anyway as long as you don't get one of the muppets). I'd ring them a few times to make sure they know what you want. One final thing 72 pin simms are getting very expensive because they are no longer been manufactured.


Gandalf.

tHE vAGGABOND

Gandy I'll break it down for ya !

I bougth the offending maching early Oct 97
It was then a G5 series model

I have 3 - 72 pin slots
One slot is used
I have 32 megs of ram

The bios says I have SDRAM
The start up check says I have NVRAM

To help HL and Tribes I need 32 more megs or RAM

Shinji

You can't have 3 72-pin slots on a pentium board. And nor, for that matter, can you have only one 72-pin slot occupied, because 72-pin SIMMs have to be fitted in pairs.

I think you'll find that what you have in there is a single 66-Mhz 168-pin SDRAM DIMM. I say this with a fair degree of certainty because I got one of those machines in November 97, and it's sitting downstairs being abused by the kiddies right now <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">

Mata ne!
Shin-chan

WhiteWashMan

aarrgghhh, if youd told me a week ago you wanted simms, i could have sold you 2*32mg 72 pin simms. bring you up to a nice 96 mg which is what i had in me old 166.
sorry
course if anyone wants any 16mg 84pin dimms, im practicly givin them away.

tHE vAGGABOND

/vagga hangs his head in shame, walks to the corner and puts a large brown paper bag over his head and procedes to slap his ***** up with a side of smoked salmon

OK, OK so I'm a know it all and was talking through my hatI have 2 168 pins and have filled the second one successfully

So I wont trouble any of you any longer bar MP and Kaile! and shall bid you all adieu.......

[fist]Snowball

that will learn ya for buying Gateway

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Snowball.

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