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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Subject: Re: Can I mix 70ns SIMMS with 80ns SIMMS
- References: <19088@fritz.filenet.com> <1992Jul28.172146.21250@njitgw.njit.edu> <l7cno9INN6v7@tokio.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 10:54:08 GMT
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- In <l7cno9INN6v7@tokio.cs.utexas.edu> graham@cs.utexas.edu (Ralph Arnold Graham) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul28.172146.21250@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >>Dave Arnold writes:
- >>>I am upgrading to OS/2 2.0, and so I need 8 megabytes of RAM.
- >>>Can I safely mix 80ns chips with 70ns chips
- >>>for use with OS/2? I was told that OS/2 is very sesitive to memory.
- >>
- >>I don't think you'll have a problem, but get a warantee, anyhow.
-
- >I have successfully mixed four 1MBx9 60 ns SIMMs and four 1MBx3 70 ns SIMMs
- >in my 386-20 and have had no problems running OS/2 2.0...
-
-
- >--
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- > Ralph Graham graham@cs.utexas.edu
- > . . . life is merely a wretched cesspool of twisted emotions . . .
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-
- The problem is not really the different access time, as long as the slowest
- chipset is at least as fast as it should be for the processor clock
- frequency (e.g. 70ns for 386/33 with 1 wait state, 60 for 0 WS).
-
- It is usually the above combination of 1MBx9 and 1MBx3 that may or may not work
- depending on the chipset your 386 board uses. Some older chipsets are not
- designed for 4MB SIMMs and will accept 1MBx3 SIMMs in DOS applications,
- but not under OS/2 or other protected mode OSes.
- This is because the 3 chip SIMM has 4 Meg chips on it (two 1Mbit x 4 and one
- 1Mbit x 1). 4Meg chips have an additional refresh line which is not serviced
- by older chip sets. Thus, you use the 3-chip SIMM outside of the specification,
- which is critical in particular in OS/2.
-
- Conclusion: look into your motherboard's manual. If it accepts a configuration
- with 4 Megabyte SIMMs/SIPs (not 4 x 1MByte in a bank, but 16 MByte in a bank),
- then you are safe to use 3-chip sets. Otherwise use 9-chip sets.
-
- Bye
-
- Holger
-
-
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