"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy at veldy.net> writes: > There is a known issue on some older Pentium 2 mainboards (Dells in > particular). They don't like the PC100 DIMMS, as they only take standard 66 > MHz SDRAM. A BIOS update was all that is needed in most cases to make it > work. Check you BIOS and see if it is at the latest level. Ooh, now *that* sounds promising. I'll check. I'm currently unemployed and have no money to throw at the project, so using the ram I already have is *infinitely* more attractive than replacing the processor and motherboard :-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info