Can you mix EDO & FPM SIMMs?

[dmk11]

The system has 4 slots. It's HP Pavillion 8180

Can I have 2 EDO SIMMs and 2 FPM SIMMs??

 

[Vegito]

depending on system but I had 1 FPM with 3 edo and 2 fpm with 2 edo without problems. Depends on how sensitive your mobo is for the HP..

 

[BoberFett]

I didn't think you could, I was recently corrected. A friend of mine had an old HP P200 with EDO in the Bank1 and FPM in the Bank2.

 

[dmk11]

Hmm.. I guess if an older HP can handle it, this one should too.

What the heck, i'll take a chance and buy those FPM SIMMs.

Thanks guys!

 

[440sixpack]

It should work fine, I built a K6-2 266 system for my parents last year, and stuck in 2 32MB EDO's and 2 old 4MB FPM's I had hanging around, and there's been no problems so far.

 

[rnimz]

Usually if you mix both FPM and EDO SIMMs all that will happen is that EDO will be disabled on the EDO SIMMs and will run as FPM (Which is to say they would run normaly without EDO enabled), they should run fine.

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

but my guess is you'd have to run at the latency of the FP 70 or 80ns instead of the EDO 60 or 70ns.

 

[oldfart]

FP comes in 60ns also.