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piccolo

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Posted: Mar. 23 2006,10:58

Before i want to write: i also had used 2 identicals 32 MB memories without success

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Posted: Mar. 23 2006,13:20

I feel bad that I threw away a pIII 500 and a dual 550 with 512 of pc100 each and did not even bother to offer it to someone. I come into gobs of elderly hardware and will start to offer it up for the cost of shipping.

piccolo

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Posted: Mar. 24 2006,10:46

I'm sorry, an interesting proposition but i write from Argentina. Many tanks t4thfavor, though.
Is important for me to recover old computers by installing DSL because i think that can be the way to carry education and technology to poor or displaced people of few resources.
Even more, that people will begin using Linux. Regards.

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Posted: Mar. 25 2006,06:42

These motherboards can run eather 30 pin mem or 72 pin but not both. There is a jumper on the mother board that selects which one you are using. 30 pin mem was limited to 4 megs a slot and had to be installed in pairs. The 72 pin memory must be in pairs of the same type, edo or ecc was probably not supported on cheaper boards. Because it is showing 16 megs max with the 72 pin mem installed, I believe the jumper is still installed in the wrong place. The jumper is next to the 72pin slots. I believe that most of these boards supported 128 megs in the 72 pin slots.

I do have a bunch of old p2 350's & p3 550 boards I would give away if you pay shipping. I also have a bunch of old computers as well, free to those that want them. PM me if you or anyone is interested.

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300c_Pilot
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piccolo

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Posted: Mar. 25 2006,14:08

Interesting information 300c_pilot, unfortunatly i give away that computer running with only RAM 16 MB but later i will return a search that possible jumper.
I not mentioned some strange: during boot with 64 MB RAM the computer hangs showing BIOS to detect 386 processor running in 16 MHz when actually is 486 processor in 66 MHz. Perhaps BIOS attempt or force to match system to RAM size due incorrect jumper setting. Existing 3 jumpers close to slots 72 pin but i believe they are for setting cache memory size. Other jumpers are far from slots.

International shipping cost is prohibitive. Is necessary an dedicated infrastructure for became it possible. Anyway, i appreciated very much your help and also all other replies. Tanks.

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