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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!! I give up!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.184819.14968@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:48:19 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.015416.6882@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1992Aug27.030506.4609@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug27.030506.4609@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Aug27.015416.6882@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
- >>a horrible tale of woe... I'm just about to install OS/2, but after reading
- >>his experience, I very worried. I *do* have a mixture of memory (on my IBM
- >>Model 70) which is certainly from different manufacturers, and almost certainly
- >>different speeds. Does anyone else have any experience with using differing
- >>memory simms with OS/2? When IBM itself warns against this situation,
- >>it sounds serious! Carl Riehm.
- >
- >Some motherboards (and they tend to be the more poorly designed ones)
- >are particularly sensitive to RAM and balk when using mismatched
- >banks.
- .....
- >Due to some recent experience one should also suspect the RAM cache.
- >Some vendors, it seems, cut corners and supply slightly out of spec
- >cache memory, substituting cache that is too slow for the system.
- >This, too, can result in memory parity errors.
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- Therefore, I don't think there'll be any problem with your PS/2 Model 70.
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