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Memory Question - outcome of exceeding the memory limits of a machine.
This may be just a stupid question, but I've never seen it asked before and
I don't know the answer. I have an emachine (etower 667ir) that I just bought used (it's three years old). It has only two memory slots built onto the motherboard that is suppose to have the ability of handling up to a combined total max of 256mb in PC100 SDRAM. I taking it for granted that number is a max of 128mb per slot. The machine currently has only one128mb stick installed, and I decided to go ahead and expand the memory to the max of it's limit by adding a second 128mb stick. This was when I had a thought and came up with a question that I have never really seen asked before. My question is what would really happen if I went against the rules and placed two separate 256mb PC100 SDRAM sticks (combined total of 512mb) inside the machine, exceeding the 256mb max limit. Would the computer: 1. just not work and/or freeze up, or 2. just be able to access the first 128mb in each stick, or 3. just be able to access the first 256mb in the first stick and ignore the second, or 4. nobody knows? Anyway, it was just a thought, since a person can over clock a some machines, it just seems a bit logical to be able to exceed the memory limits to some level or degree. -- Change [comcast.non] to [comcast.net] |
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