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- From: mendi@netcom.com (Greg Mendizabal)
- Subject: Re: Can I mix 70ns SIMMS with 80ns SIMMS
- Message-ID: <ntnm6d.mendi@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 13:53:15 GMT
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- darnold@felix.filenet.com (Dave Arnold) writes:
- >My Northgate elagance currently has 4MB of 80 nanosecond RAM (I determined
- >this by looking at the chips which have a -8 suffix). I am having trouble
- >finding 80 nanosecond chips. 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.
-
- Well.......I have an Everex STEP 386/20 and I had 70-80's mixed and the GA
- version seemed to come down with TRAP 000e *all* the time. I had a helluva
- time installing OS/2 too. I then replaced the 70's with 80's and the install
- went w/o a hitch and it ran non stop for a week or so.
-
- Then Wolf 3D hosed OS/2 when it crashed while I was trying to run it under
- "real" DOS. Now, even w/formatting the old partition I can't get OS/2
- to install without dying with a random lockup.
-
- So.......I believe the 70's did cause problems but I think I have *other*
- problems in my system besides the RAM.
-
- >Dave Arnold - KD6IFY
- >Internet: darnold@filenet.com UUCP: uunet!felix!darnold
- >--- The opinions expressed above are only mine, not FileNet's
-
- GRiM
-