I  believe you are right.  I was trying to write an explanation and got myself all confused, so gave up.  So, thank you, yeah, I was lead to believe that PAE would address that.

(Wikipedia has something about it, if you’re curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension )

From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Nathan O'Brennan
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 2:55 PM
To: Matthew Crews
Cc: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
Subject: Re: Need: 2GB PC 4200 DDR2 533MHz

cat /proc/cpuinfo says:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300  @ 1.80GHz

Which is a 64-bit instruction set. So it should be good. Regardless, if this was not a 64-bit cpu wouldn't pae address that? Or does that require 64-bit instructions also? I thought pae was specifically for that type of scenario?

On 2017-12-12 14:33, Matthew Crews wrote:

What CPU? If it's as old as I think it is, it only has a 32-bit CPU and more ram won't help much.


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-------- Original Message --------
On Dec 12, 2017, 13:15, Nathan O'Brennan wrote:

I'm trying to breathe some last breaths into an old computer my kids
use. It has 4 slots which are currently occupied by 1 GB DIMMS. I
searched a bunch of Dell forums and some people were able to get this
system to upgrade to 8GB of ram while others could only get the 4GB to
work. I don't want to waste any money here, so I'm hoping to find
someone who has 2GB PC 4200 DIMMS they are willing to part with?

Nathan
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