"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.

It wasn't, and updating went okay (I'm always a bit nervous
reprogramming system-critical flash memory!). 

Unfortunately it didn't *help*.  

Ah, well, you win a few, you lose a few.  
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