[ltp] MDK 10.1 Performance and ThinkPad T22 HD SODIMMs

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 19:41:27 -0700, Andrew Crawford wrote:
> I upgraded to Mandrake/Mandriva 10.1 on my ThinkPad T22 recently.  The 
> newer distro is a little sluggish and I thought going up to 512MB of RAM 
> (from 256MB) might help.  Crucial sells the appropriate PC100 SODIMMs 
> for ~$225 USD (2x256MB) ... which is awfully steep (consider that 256MB 
> PC133 SODIMMs are in the ~$50 USD range - less than 50% the price).
> 
> There's a guy on eBay who has a bunch of new 256MB PC100 SODIMMs and 
> only wants ~$45 USD for them.  However, they are high density.  I can't 
> find any references to high density RAM either way in manual or in the 
> IBM/Lenovo support docs.  Anybody know if these will work?

AFAIK the T22 uses the 440BX chipset which need the expensive low
density modules. High density modules won't work. You need at least a
T23 (i830M chipset) to use such modules.

Regards,
Tino