Re: hardware question

["Brent Fox" <brent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

you need PC-100 ram that's why the computer is running so slow that kind of
motherboard needs Pc 100 ram no matter if the processor is only meant to run
only at 66mhz still need Pc 100 ram on any 100 MHz motherboard
----- Original Message -----
From: Zachary Florian <icthusianz@ameritech.net>
To: <klug@klug.armintl.com>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 12:33 AM
Subject: hardware question


> alrighty here's the problemo:
>
>     a friend of mine has a computer which he put together... he just
dropped
> a new MotherBoard and Processor in it and is now having some problems...
in
> what would be considered problems the main part is that the computer is
> acting much slower than it should, and sometimes won't run the program it
is
> supposed to... now my friend swapped the RAM from his old mobo to the new
> one, could the problem be that the old RAM is at 66mHz while the new mobo
is
> designed to run at 100mHz? what kind of result would that have on the
> computer's functioning?
>
>