EDO Ram & SDRAM together???

[#2]

hello,
I'd would like to know if its possible for my mobo to use both EDO Ram & SDRAM. This mobo has 2 DIMM slots and 4 SIMM slots.

I have yet to figure out the What,WHen,WHo kinda things for this mobo. I'm trying upgrade the BIOS and so far it can be 1 of 5 mobo manufacturers/models... (aarrrgghhh!!)
Sooner or later I'll figure it out. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[CMonster]

Consult your motherboard manual -oops I guess you don't have one. My guess is this is a socket7 motherboard -yes? As for mixed kinds of memory e.g. EDO and SDRAM - probably not going to work... if you mean the same kind of memory e.g. EDO in both SIMMs and DIMMs it may be possible.

[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 12-28-2000).]

[Andy_L]

Normally mixing DIMMS and SIMMS will smoke the DIMMS on a socket 7 board, but there are a few boards that do allow it, i would D/L a manual for the board B4 i tried it.

[Steve R Jones]

My second pc will allow the mix. Except the first two simm slots must be empty and I have to re-jummper the mobo a little.

Updateing the Bios "probably" has little to do with adding ram.

Seems like I've seen that there is a site that will tell you who made the mobo by using the FCC numbers on the mobo.

[Eli]

I used both 72 pin EDO ram and 168 pin sdram on my ol M717 board and it never had a problem. It's definitely not recommended, and even after it had been running for months people told me it could NOT be done, it definitely is possible. All I had to do was leave one of the two 168 pin banks empty.

[shadow]

Yup, it can be done.
I did it on a PC-Chips, had 1-64MB DIMM and 2-16MB SIMMs with a AMD K6-2/500 and all worked well...really.
Only one way to find out, give it a go, you arent risking much except a no-boot situation.

[7Words]

hey i did that setup with my old amd 200 system. It worked fine, but i dont remember what motherboard it was. I had 128mb sdram and had 64mb of edo ram. Booted up the system and it read 192 memory.

[Sweeper]

Had a GA-586TX2 that allowed for both sdram/edo ram. up to 192mb mixed or 256 with just edo.
Sweeper