HP Memory Question.

My grandson has a Hewlett Packard Pavilion 6540C computer. The memory is
the original 96MB. I am trying to upgrade to 256MB with two 128MB sticks.
I am trying to buy them on ebay since new memory for this machine is quite
expensive. My problem is the configuration of the different types. The
manual says that it is PC 100 SDRAM 168 pin DIMM with 16X8 chip
configuration. My concern is that I have been told that PC 133 will
work as well and my other concern is with the l6X8 chip configuration. I
have been told that 16X64 will work. Any comments will be appreciated.
Thanks, Fred

16x8 and 16x64 are two different things. 16x64 refers to the overall memory
organization of 16MB x 64 bits, or 16MB x 8 bytes, or 128MB. 16x8 refers to the
number of chips on the DIMM. What you want are DIMMs manufactured with low
density chips, 16 of them, 8 per side.

The Pavilion 6540c has an Intel 810 chipset, which is likely to work just fine
with PC133 memory... Ben Myers

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:59:06 GMT, "Fred" <> wrote:

>My grandson has a Hewlett Packard Pavilion 6540C computer. The memory is
>the original 96MB. I am trying to upgrade to 256MB with two 128MB sticks.
>I am trying to buy them on ebay since new memory for this machine is quite
>expensive. My problem is the configuration of the different types. The
>manual says that it is PC 100 SDRAM 168 pin DIMM with 16X8 chip
>configuration. My concern is that I have been told that PC 133 will
>work as well and my other concern is with the l6X8 chip configuration. I
>have been told that 16X64 will work. Any comments will be appreciated.
>Thanks, Fred
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