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Memory for an Amptron motherboard
A friend of a friend has an elderly computer (P133 with 16MB FPM
memory) that needs more memory. It was assembled by a company that no longer exists, and he has no documentation. I ran AIDA32 on it and it reported an AMPTRON PM-8800A motherboard with an Intel i430VX chipset, 3 ISA, 4 PCI, 1 DIMM and 4 SIMM slots. 2 of the SIMMs are populated with 8MB FPM SIMMs. The only reference I could find to the 8800A was that it was a sub division of the 8800, which apparently will accept a total of 128MB - so it would seem that the best option would be to ditch the SIMMs and install a 128MB SDRAM DIMM (there is aparently a jumper to set either 3.3v or 5v DIMM memory). I contacted Crucial because this motherboard doesn't exist on their website, and they said that only SIMMs can be inserted. I emailed Amptron, asked about the DIMM slot, and got the following reply... "Actually you could only add 64MB in each slot with the 8800 and 8800A the only m/b you could add the 128MB would be the 8800C". I've looked at the motherboard and there is definately a DIMM slot and 4 SIMM slots with 2 populated. So... does anyone know for sure if this motherboard will accept the 128MB SDRAM? -- Regards, Gary Wooding (Change feet to foot to reply) |
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