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- From: liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu)
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- Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!! I give up!
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 20:01:40 GMT
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- >Some motherboards (and they tend to be the more poorly designed ones)
- >are particularly sensitive to RAM and balk when using mismatched
- >banks.
-
- >At present, however, I am using a no name clone motherboard with four
- >80 ns 3-chip SIMMs and four 70 ns 9-chip SIMMs -- and it all works
- >just fine. And that will be the rule rather than the exception.
- >However, in those cases where you get numerous TRAP 2 messages,
- >suspect mismatched RAM, particularly a mixture of 3-chip and 9-chip
- >SIMMs.
-
- >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.
-
- Can you explain why this happens only under OS/2? Is it just another excuse,
- blaming hardware? Does it happen under other complex programs like Unix or
- Novell? Thanks.
- >--
- >Timothy F. Sipples | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
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- >Dept. of Econ., Univ. | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
- >Chicago, 60637 | Hey GOP: The Economy, Stupid!
-