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Can I add video ram to my P4vmm2 8.1 board. Shows to be PCI Bus S3 Pro Savage DDR with Bios ver. 78.30.00.19 Chip Type S3 P4M266 DAC Type S3 SDAC Memory Size 32 MB
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SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! - SOYO AMD Socket-A Based VIA KT266A Chipset ATX Motherboard
AMD Recommended Motherboard
D: DDR266 SDRAM R: Promise IDE-RAID (0,1) A: CMedia 8738 6-channel hardware audio on board G: Universal AGP Pro slot O: Overclocking, set up FSB by 1MHz increment N: 10/100 Mbps Ethernet by ICS PHY Controller
Specifications
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processor Click here for maximum CPU support Click here for maximum Front Side Bus (FSB) support Interface Socket "A"(462) Chipset Type VIA KT266A Chipset Description VIA KT266A / 8233 CE Version Chipset Supports 200/266 MHz FSB Form Factor ATX Memory Type DDR SDRAM Memory Description Three DDR 2.5V DIMM sockets support up to 3GB*. 184-pin PC2100/PC1600 non-ECC, unbuffered DDR SDRAM memory. *recommended to use 3 sticks of DDR200(PC1600), or 2 DDR266(PC2100) memory on this board. Expansion Slots Five 32-bit Bus Mastering PCI slots (V2.2 compliant) One Universal AGP Pro slot (supports 1x/2x/4x modes) Expansion Slot Types Five 32-bit Bus Mastering PCI IDE Type UDMA 33/66/100 IDE Description Four independent channels for 8 IDE devices (2 for RAID) Supports up to PIO mode 5 & Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Two PCI bus mastering ATA E-IDE ports Audio Description On board CMI 8738 audio chip providing 6-channel audio solution IO Port Description Two RS-232 serial ports (16550 UART compatible) One parallel printer port (SPP/EPP/ECP mode) One FDD port (supports 3 modes, 1.2/1.44/2.88MB FDD) Provides IrDA with optional cable for transceiver Provides 6 USB ports (2* rear, 4*front) IO Connection Description PS/2 Mini-DIN mouse & keyboard ports Two USB ports One RJ45 connector Two D-Sub 9-pin male serial ports One D-Sub 25-pin female printer port Audio I/O: LINE-OUT x 1, LINE-IN x 1, MIC JACK x 1 One game port BIOS Description Award PCI BIOS with ACPI function Supports multiple-boot from E-IDE / SCSI / CD-ROM / FDD / LS120 / ZIP 2 Mbyte Flash ROM Health Monitoring Description On board voltage monitors for CPU Vcore, +3.3, +5V & +12V CPU fan speed monitor CPU temperature monitoring through flexible thermal sensor Dimension Description Four layers, 30.5 cm x 23 cm (12" x 9.05") ATX form factor
Certification FCC Class B & CE EMI Regulation CompliantPC99 Compliant Compatibilities WinXP / Win2000 / WinNT / WinME / Win98SE / Linux / FreeBSD Warranty All SOYO products are designed to offer stability and flexibility, and are tested to ensure highest reliability. We offer a 1 year limited warranty on this SOYO product.
Best and easiest thing to do is go to www.crucial.com and run a scan of your computer. It will tell you what you have, how much it will hold, and what kind of modules.
Gateway's website says this motherboard will support 4GB of DDR333 or DDR400 memory. I would suggest testing each memory modules by plugging it into the board by itself, then rebooting. This way you can catch a bad DIMM that might be causing problems. If each one checks out then start adding one module at a time, rebooting after each one. If it still stops booting after you add a module, you probably have a bad system board, and only now that you are adding the extra memory are you finding that out. If that is the case, try contacting Gateway support. Maybe they would be kind enough to cover repair under warranty.
Yes that should not be a problem as DDR is backward compatible with the slower speeds so the faster RAM, will just slow down to match. These are the only conditions listed so as long as the stick you have doesn't fall under this criteria you should be good.
he D845GLVA board provide the following memory features:
2.5 V (only) 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMMs with gold-plated contacts
Unbuffered single-sided or double-sided DIMMs
Maximum total system memory: 2 GB; minimum total system memory: 64 MB
DDR266/200 MHz SDRAM DIMMs only
Serial Presence Detect (SPD)
CAUTION: Do not use ECC DIMMs with this board. Using ECC DIMMs could damage the board. Integrator's Notes:
Registered DIMMs are not supported.
Double-sided x16 DIMMs are not supported.
If
a full-length PCI add-in card is installed in PCI bus connector 1 (the
PCI bus connector closest to the processor), remove the add-in card
before installing or upgrading memory to avoid interference with the
memory retention mechanism.
This board has been designed to support DIMMs based
on 512 Mbit technology for a maximum onboard capacity of up to 2 GB,
but this technology has not been validated (currently validated up to
1.0 GB) on this board.
Note: To
be fully compliant with all applicable DDR SDRAM memory specifications,
the board should be populated with DIMMs that support the Serial
Presence Detect (SPD) data structure. This allows the BIOS to read the
SPD data and program the chipset to accurately configure memory
settings for optimum performance.
No. DDR replaced the SD in RAM so SDRAM and DDR RAM are two completely different things but each ram type has its own frequency hence you get SDRAM 100(mhz) and SDRAM 133(Mhz) just like you get DDR 1 RAM at 266(mhz) and 400(mhz) and DDR 2 RAM at 533(mhz) and 800(mhz). Therefore as you can see how these things differ, but if your mboard takes SDRAM that it can take and frequency of SDRAM but you must ensure that all the frequencies of all your RAM modules in all your slots correspond otherwise you will have problems, meaning that if you decide to use 133mhz RAM then all your RAM modules that you use must be the same. Let me know how you go. thanks
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