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I also have a 430VX p200mmx overdrive from Gateway.  The specs on this board
list 64 mb sdram tops....128 mb edo.  The board has two dimm slots.
In many cases, vendors installed proprietary ram....you just can't stick
whatever you want in the board.  This could be a problem for you.  I believe
all ram for this vintage board is 66; however, in my case the ram for my
board is listed as 8ns ram.  Again, this may be because of the proprietary
nature of the ram.  If you can cache anything over 128 mb, I'd love to hear
about it.  I understand that installing too much ram will actually slow down
such a  system.  You might do a google search and try to find some info
about your board


"Francois LeBlanc" <istvan43@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:j_uX6.10621$aW4.1380596@news-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> Hello,
> I have a very similar problem: I have a Pentium 200MMX on a 5I-VX1C (not
> sure of the company) motherboard running on i430 VX chipset. The VX can
> support 128 Megs of SDRAM (only Cached). My mobo has 4 SIMM slots and 1
DIMM
> but if I put in a DIMM,I can't use any SIMMs. I have 2 16 Mb SIMMs and I
> want to put in more RAM : 64 or 128 MB on a DIMM because the SIMMs are
just
> too expensive. I've already bought a 256 Mb PC133 stick before I knew the
> mobo couldn't even support it all ( I can return it though) and the
> motherboard is only seeing 64 Megs of it.
>
> First of all is this safe? I've run memtest86 and Prime95 and it seems
> stable but I'm not sure where the problem is nor if this could damage my
> mobo.
>
> Second, was there a type of SDRAM before PC66 SDRAM. My mobo manual says
it
> supports SDRAM but I don't know if PC66 is what it means. And I've heard
> that you can usually put in PC133 or PC100 anywhere a PC66 can go, at
least
> in theory.
>
> I'm gonna try next a 64 Meg PC133 DIMM to see if it stills divides by 4 or
> uses it all; if it gives me only 16 Mb, I'll probably end up sticking with
> the 256 Mb DIMM because it would be cheaper than buying SIMMs (and I can
> even sell the used ones)
>
> A lot of you might suggest me to simply buy another computer but I want to
> keep this one until something I ABSOLUTELY want to do ABSOLUTELY can't be
> done with my computer.
>
> I welcome any advice or suggestion.
>
> Frank
>