I’m upgrading some celeron systems for an organization. I don’t have any manuals for these machines, but they are mainly 300-350 celerons on what I believe is an Intel board. My question is this: they all have 168 pin PC100 NVRAM. I tried replacing the NVRAM with 128 mgs PC100 SDRAM, and found the system wouldn’t boot–or at least the screen was black. No beeps. I took the SDRAM out and put the NVRAM back in and it booted up normally. I’ve never run into NVRAM before. Tomorrow I’ll get better information on the motherboard and bios, but has anyone run into PC’s that run only NVRAM? Is this usual for Celerons? There is only one jumper on this board, which probably isn’t for RAM, but I haven’t checked out the bios settings yet to see if there’s a switch for RAM types.
If you have seen this sort of system, I’d like some information on the best way to upgrade them. Replacing the chip and board is out for now, since both the organization and myself are non-profit and low-budget for now 🙂
