Dave Beauvais

I've seen this in another "generic" brand sold at Micro Center stores. (I forget the brand name, but it begins with "B," if I recall correctly.) Basically, there is something in the SPD chip (Serial Presence Detect -- the chip that identifies the DIMM to the BIOS and tells what the chip is capable of doing) that indicates it will only operate at a 133 MHz bus speed. I can see no practical reason for doing this other than to force people to buy the now more expensive PC100 RAM if they can manage to find it anywhere.

It may be possible to run these PC133 DIMMs by going into the BIOS and configuring RAM timings manually, but this is a pain in the ass that you shouldn't have to deal with. I agree with other posters: buy Crucial.

--Dave

__________________
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.