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- From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 1x9 vs. 1x3 memory
- Date: 14 Sep 1992 01:48:54 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- Message-ID: <190r26INN188@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1992Sep11.164957.5227@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <18uu65INNo5v@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep13.225000.10048@ee.ubc.ca>
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- >>different banks. If you put 3 and 9's in the same bank, there might be
- >>a problem because the the computer might try to register them in two
- >>different ways. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >I'm not quite clear on what is meant by "register". I have 3 and 9 chips
- >sitting on different banks, so I'm OK. I've heard some people are having
- >problems when they are on the same bank. What exactly doesn't the computer
- >like?
- >
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- I don't remember anymore. It was about two weeks ago and
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- a nice memory expert was explaining it to me. I guess I
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- really wasn't apying attention because I was still trying
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- to figure out why they called the 3 chip sets 1 X 9 simms. :)
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- David Shy
- shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu
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