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- From: kan@bugs-bunny.rtp.dg.com (Victor Kan)
- Subject: Re: "Nasty" Tri-Star 33 MHz 486 to 16Mb?
- Sender: usenet@dg-rtp.dg.com (Usenet Administration)
- Message-ID: <KAN.92Jul21201710@bugs-bunny.rtp.dg.com>
- In-Reply-To: clong@remus.rutgers.edu's message of 21 Jul 92 00:06:45 GMT
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:17:10
- Distribution: comp
- Reply-To: kan@dg-rtp.dg.com
- References: <Jul.20.20.06.45.1992.6304@remus.rutgers.edu>
- Organization: Program Development Environments, Data General Corp., RTP, NC
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- >>>>> On 21 Jul 92 00:06:45 GMT, clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) said:
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- Chris> I just won the above computer in a puzzle contest, and I'm
-
- Hey, at least you didn't pay $2700 for it!
-
- Chris> interested in expanding it to 16 Mb from 8 Mb. Now, the manual
- Chris> that comes with it claims I need only pop in the extra memory
- Chris> and flip switch SW2. I did this and nothing happened (of
- Chris> course, or else I wouldn't have a problem).
-
- Is yours a 486/33 ISA Free Technologies motherboard? The manual that
- comes with my TriStar doesn't say anything about setting jumpers or
- switches after installing more SIMMs. And it says that SW2 is the
- Turbo switch connector.
-
- Just to be sure, did you install 8-1Mb SIMMs or 2-4Mb SIMMs? The
- latter won't work.
-
- Chris> I called Tri-Star
- Chris> and they were very nasty (I wasn't "the original owner").
-
- How did they find out you weren't the original owner? The few times
- I've called tech support about problems, they've never asked for a
- customer ID number or anything. But then they didn't know how to
- solve my problems either. Luckily, they were minor problems and I
- figured it out myself.
-
- Chris> I'm
- Chris> never going to buy anything from them based on this lovely PR,
- Chris> but I'm still stuck wih this PC. Does anyone know what the
- Chris> deal is with expanding this guy to 16Mb?
-
- I know of more reasons not to buy from them. Send e-mail if you want
- my hard luck story.
-
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