Anyone have some old PC RAM laying around?

[HardcoreZ28]

I need some memory for my old ass computer from college. My parents are using it now and a buddy installed XP on it but it's running waaaaaay slow. The computer only has a 450mHz processor with a P1 or PII chip in it. I went to Best Buy to get some but they wanted a fortune for it because nobody makes it for machines that old anymore. If you have some you can part with for free or really cheap please let me know. Thanks!

[Squirrel]

i think one of the reasons is XP requires 500mhz to run lol...sorry i cant help otherwise

[deadtrend1]

i pretty sure i got some old 128 meg dimm chips laying around. Ill check in a bit to make sure

[HardcoreZ28]

That would be great....let me know man.

Originally Posted by deadtrend1

i pretty sure i got some old 128 meg dimm chips laying around. Ill check in a bit to make sure

[BonzoHansen]

You might be better off with win 2k.

[JL8Jeff]

I don't know if it matters but what brand computer and what memory chips do you need? I might have an old Dell P166 that has some ram in it but I think the Dell ram is proprietary.

[deadtrend1]

Originally Posted by JL8Jeff

I don't know if it matters but what brand computer and what memory chips do you need? I might have an old Dell P166 that has some ram in it but I think the Dell ram is proprietary.

it could even have 64 pin simm's in it. Thats taking me way back......

[Tru2Chevy]

Originally Posted by JL8Jeff

but I think the Dell ram is proprietary.

Nope, it's generic stuff.

Any idea what type of RAM you need? I'm gonna assume it's prolly PC-66 or PC-100 SDRAM.

- Justin

[HardcoreZ28]

Ha....I have no idea. The computer was made in like 99....it's a custom machine from some local shop. My buddy had it open last week I'll ask him what type of memory it needs.

[JL8Jeff]

Originally Posted by deadtrend1

it could even have 64 pin simm's in it. Thats taking me way back......

Ha, you wanna be taken back in time, when I started at my company you were lucky if you had dual 5-1/4" floppy drives and 480K of ram! Being a programmer, I had one of the few 10 meg hard drives in the company! You should try writing programs to run on a PC with just a floppy and less than 640K of ram. I remember trying to add some more memory to my old Dell P166at home and it wouldn't recognize it so I'm sure Dell needs specific memory. But I have several simms in that machine and you're welcome to them if they can work.

[foff667]

i have a couple of 64mb sticks at my house that never got used...if anyone wants them let me know.

[foff667]

Originally Posted by JL8Jeff

Ha, you wanna be taken back in time, when I started at my company you were lucky if you had dual 5-1/4" floppy drives and 480K of ram! Being a programmer, I had one of the few 10 meg hard drives in the company! You should try writing programs to run on a PC with just a floppy and less than 640K of ram. I remember trying to add some more memory to my old Dell P166at home and it wouldn't recognize it so I'm sure Dell needs specific memory. But I have several simms in that machine and you're welcome to them if they can work.

i remember our first PC, brand new, was like 2 grand & had like 105mb HD lol

[HardcoreZ28]

My buddy has no idea what the different memories mean....and I sure as hell don't either.

[Tru2Chevy]

Well if it was built in '99 it's most likely PC-100 or PC-133. It could be DDR, but I'm thinking no.

Any way you can get a picture of one of the sticks of RAM that's in there, or get the brand name/model number of the motherboard (should be printed right on it)?

- Justin

[foff667]

hey justin ive got a 256mb clip of 133mhz ram just sitting here but my computer right now has 256mb clip of DDR ram...obviously i have no clue if it will work or not, any thoughts? If so is it as simple as filling the empty slot with the computer off? Or is there something i have to do afterwords?

[HardcoreZ28]

I'll pull the case off it this weekend and see what I can find...thanks guys.

[Tru2Chevy]

Originally Posted by foff667

hey justin ive got a 256mb clip of 133mhz ram just sitting here but my computer right now has 256mb clip of DDR ram...obviously i have no clue if it will work or not, any thoughts? If so is it as simple as filling the empty slot with the computer off? Or is there something i have to do afterwords?

A stick of pc-133 won't physically fit into a DDR RAM slot. Sorry buddy....

- Justin

[foff667]

ahh...i looked at the slot & it looked like it would fit thanks though

[Tru2Chevy]

Originally Posted by foff667

ahh...i looked at the slot & it looked like it would fit thanks though

If you look at the key ways in the slot, there should only be one that's slightly off-center, but there should be two in the pc-133 stick.

- Justin

[Savage_Messiah]

I just found some ram lying around... dunno what size or kind... 2 tciks, each has a sticker that says "AICE mod 001062-00"

[enRo]

**** man, if i saw this post, i wouldve grabbed some for ya. I find RAM all the time in old computers at work. Ill grab some if i see them tomorrow.

[HardcoreZ28]

Awesome, let me know man.

Originally Posted by BigDaddyKane

**** man, if i saw this post, i wouldve grabbed some for ya. I find RAM all the time in old computers at work. Ill grab some if i see them tomorrow.

[deadtrend1]

sorry man, i forgot about this. I just looked and found 3 pc-100 DIMM chips i have sitting around. One is a 64 meg. The other 2 im not sure of. Either 128's or 64's, but they both are pc-100's. Only way i can telll is to put them in one of my towers and see what they are. i

ts been so long since I was into computers. I used to be able to read the numbers on the chip and tell by that but my brain went to mush.

[deadtrend1]

wow, 14 hours left
http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-of-23-64-meg...QQcmdZViewItem

[HardcoreZ28]

Yeah but I don't know for sure that's they type I need so I can't bid.