[Overclocked412]

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Originally Posted by byunews

We set out to buy some new RAM. In order to determine what kind to buy, I fired up WCPUID, which told me that the front side bus speed of the computer was 100mhz. I thought "100mhz? You can't get DDR100 memory. It must be PC100". It took a long time and a lot of money, but we finally hunted down a PC-100 512mb SODIMM for the laptop.

am I the only one who see's this statement as -way- wrong? the FRONT SIDE BUS has zippo to do with what type of ram you have, thats what the friggen processor is running at. If you want to find out what RAM you need, look for a chipset number (like 845gl for example), and google that. Or just look it up on dells site. I dont know why you didnt do that? And the memory running at 100 mhz does seem off, it should be 266 if there is a PC2100 stick in there (which should be, from the factory). Can you post a screenshot of what its saying. And you might want to download this really nifty program called PC Wizard 2005, its free and a great program with lots of info about your computer and everything in and hooked up to it.

http://www.cpuid.com/pcw.php