From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:17:41 EST
never heard of such a thing as using two 32meg SO DIMMS in the DIMM adapter to
achieve 72megs..
i suppose its worth a try.. :-) but i would not hold out much hope..
"James H. E. Maugham" wrote:
> On 12 Nov 99, at 21:32, John Lee P. Holmes wrote:
>
> > I have an old tp 755 cdv (nonpentium 100 mhz) which currently runs
> > win311. Given potential y2k probs I've decided to try to upgrade to
> > windows 98. I know it will run slowly even with the max 30 meg ram but I
> > hope this is not an impossibility. I just think on balance it will be
> > problematic to continue with 311 after jan1st. and everything is backupd
> > so I can go back if things go awry. But I hope to get advice that will
> > maximize the chances of success.
> >
> > My question then is: has anyone done this and can I simply use the
> > windows 98 disk to overwrite 311 or is it better to reinstall? Thank you
> > in advance for your advice!
>
> I'm happily running W98SE on several Pentium 755CDs (FBKs), but have
> found it to be extremely slow on my non-Pentium machines (9BEs). On those
> I'm running W95 OS2 with very good results. FWIW, I've got W2K (RC2) up
> on one of my 9BEs and it's running quite well (as well as on an FBK, where it
> SMOKES!), regardless of the fact that MS suggests a P/166 as the minimum
> system. In fact it runs better on the DX4/100 machine than W95! No separate
> W2K support for any of the TP features, but the W95 drivers seem to work
> fine.
>
> BTW, the max RAM on the 755CD/CDV is 40MB with the 32MB memory
> card. I've heard that this can be increased to 72MB by using the SO DIMM
> adapter and two 32MB DIMMs, but I've never been able to track down
> whether or not this is actually possible.
>
> Bill, Jaren, Mark B., Denis, you ever hear about this?
>
> Regards,
>
> James
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