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Solve : Looking for a cheap obsolete 256MB stick of PC100 SODIMM SDRAM? |
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Answer» https://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latc600/en/ug/specs.htm Was hoping to find a 256MB RAM stick for my old Dell Latitude C600 which uses PC100 SDRAM SODIMM memory and finding a few 133Mhz RAM sticks for $10, but no 100Mhz sticks for less than $20 ( RAM + Shipping ) Anyone know of someplace other than Amazon or Ebay that sells good obsolete parts. Doesn't matter if its used vs new, just needs to be good memory. Right now I am running on 384MB RAM ( 256mb + 128mb ) sticks and want to replace the 128MB stick with a 256mb and get my RAM count to 512MB. Just cant justify paying $20 for this old dinosour, but dont mind paying around $10 to get an extra 128MB RAM count. Running this laptop with a 20GB HDD and Windows XP Pro SP2. Upgrading to SP3 and all other patches cause Windows to bloat in its memory needs and causes this fast laptop for a Pentium 3 slow down to a crawl. Figured I'd try 512MB RAM and that might fix the issue with SP3 and all other updates bringing laptop to a crawl. Also 512MB RAM would give me the ability to install Ubuntu or another version of Linux onto this laptop and run on the minimum recommended memory, although some distros are starting to state 768MB and 1GB RAM minimum now.If no one on here comes up with having what your looking for you might try some local computer repair shops that have been around that go back to near the time when that technology was in fashion. If they don't keep a particularly clean shop they may have something that has that ram in under a shelf somewhere they would sell. Often when i need older ram i check out garage sales and often find what i need for practically nothing including everything else that is in the case.However given that this is a laptop finding the smaller ram modules might not be so easy.truenorthThanks for the REPLY... yah I tried contacting the 3 shops that know me and I have friends that work at, and they are actually pretty good at getting rid of obsolete parts before they become as obsolete as this RAM stick is in age. They did have an older similar model Dell Laptop TUCKED in the back that had RAM in it, but it was 2 x 128MB sticks for 256MB RAM. Back when this Dell was new the 256MB sticks were pricey and most people were happy with 2 x 128MB sticks. When I got this laptop for free from a customer 4 years ago that I did some work for who wanted a proper WAY to dispose of it, it only had 128MB Ram in it and originally Windows 98SE. I had a Toshiba 500Mhz Pentium 3 Portege that had a single 256MB PC100 stick in it paired with the 128MB of integrated memory and, so I used that stick to get my faster Dell 600Mhz to 256+128 for 384MB RAM and install Windows XP Pro to it which it runs well in speed at clean Windows XP SP2 install, but comes to a crawl at SP3 and all updates from clean SP2 to SP3 to date. Looking into the issue, memory free with SP2 clean install was about 120MB, and after all (want to say 100 updates) with SP3, there is only about 30MB free memory. So thinking that maxing it out at 512MB RAM will help greatly since its starving for memory with SP3 at 384MB, yet SP2 runs fast and can have 3 things open at same time etc while on SP3 its barely enough to run OpenOffice 3.3.0 I guess I will just have to check ebay and amazon when I remember to do so and maybe someone will unload an old stick one of these days for a price I am willing to pay.Just a point re your observations on the impact on the ram with Sp3 in XP as opposed to what the performance was like with Sp2. I am not advocating this (as i have not done it--well actually i have but not intentionally) but i have read quite a few articles on-line re this very issue. The general consensus was don't install SP3 for the very reason you state. In my case reference my earlier COMMENT re inadvertently. I have an older Computer (probably had 98 on it initially) installed XP and when Sp3 came out (it had SP2 by then ) i couldn't get SP3 to install on it. After many attempts i gave up and it was about that time that i became aware of people suggesting don't bother with SP3. So that further motivated me to not bother. But it did not demonstrate as your experience has the change re speed that having done so would have shown. You might want to examine that option.truenorthMemory maker Crucial.com recommends PC133 for your computer. See http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Latitude%20C600%20Series&Cat=RAM Some or many, but not all, systems can use PC100 and PC133 together. For some info on that, see http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/162032-31-pc133-pc100-together or do a search on mixing pc100 and pc133 RAM. When PC100 and PC133 are combined, the computer will run at the lower speed of PC100 but you still get the benefit of more RAM. Thanks for sharing that soybean. I tried a PC133 stick I had that was 512MB and looking back now it didnt post because it only supports 256MB per slot, so the single 512MB PC133 stick I had was beyond what it can address. Going to see if I can still get that 256MB PC133 stick I saw on amazon a week or so ago and then pair up this 133Mhz with my 100Mhz to run at downclock of 100Mhz.Got my 2 x 256MB PC133 SODIMM SDRAM sticks in the mail from Amazon at $5 each Plus shipping, and installed them. At the price of $5 each i figured I'd get a matched pair to instal vs mixing PC100 and PC133 sticks. Thanks so much for pointing me towards PC133 in place of PC100. I now have 512MB RAM in my old Dell laptop, and its running even better than it did on 384MB !!!! |
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