Duron Video Chipset & Memory

[Vaibhav Vaidya]

Hi,
 
AFAIK, Nvidia dont make 'on-board' chipsets... dont have much experience with amd though.
 
On the second problem, I was also interested in knowing how to tell the model no of SDRAM that would fit my motherboard, I have a 810E chipset motherboard for an old P-3... yes there are different slots for SDRAMS.. would it suffice to go into BIOS setup and try to find the motherboard maker? If I could do that where could I find a RAM for my motherboard 
 
--Vav

Paul Trevethan <plist at internode.on.net> wrote:
I have just installed 'Hoary 5.04' on an old Duron 850 machine for my
(older) sister - who just wants her computer 'to do a few letters, read
email & browse the odd web page'! She only has 120Mb of memory in it so
nothing fancy here. :)

It is chugging along just fine so far, but I have two queries I am not
able to resolve.

1. The m/board has built in video and sound and I don't know how to tell
whether or not she would benefit from adding the Nvidia stuff? I gather
I have to find out the chipset for the onboard video, is that right? I
don't know how to do that. If some kind soul could direct me in that
regard I would be grateful.

2. I wanted to boost the machine memory to make life a little less
'snail-like' for her. I had an old Kingmax 256Mb pc-133 sdram memory
stick lying around so I went to put it in the 2nd memory slot in her
machine. I could not get it to fit properly. It would almost fit but
seemed just a tad too long to sit snugly in the slot. I wasn't even sure
if I could add a 256Mb module to a 128Mb module. I tried taking out the
existing stick and still no joy? When I compared my module to the
existing one the 128 seemed to be wider than mine as well as a smidgen
shorter. There were no marking on the existing stick that I could see to
use to identify it. My question is, how do I tell exactly what memory
module to get to fit the machine? I thought all sdram modules would be
the same size but different capacity?

All help much appreciated.
Paul.




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