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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: 3-chip SIMMs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.100745.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:07:45 GMT
- References: <lentz.716563414@charm.gandalf.ca>
- Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- In article <lentz.716563414@charm.gandalf.ca>, lentz@gandalf.ca
- (Jim Lentz (Wheeling Tech Support)) writes:
- > Anyone successfully use the (new) 3 chip SIMMs in their PC? I
- > tried them in mine and they weren't even close to working. I
- > bought them at Frys with the understanding that I could return
- > them if they didn't work. They are significantly cheaper than
- > the standard 9 chip 1 meg SIMMs but aren't much good if they
- > don't work. I tried every CMOS parameter I could think of but
- > the PC would not boot at all with the 3 chip SIMMs.
-
- I've seen them in a few new machines here, where they worked fine, but
- we found they wouldn't work in an old-ish AT clone with an Award BIOS (I
- don't know whether that is relevant or not!) - 9-chip SIMMs with same
- speed rating worked fine in that machine.
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- Nick FitzGerald, PC Applications Consultant, CSC, Uni of Canterbury, N.Z.
- n.fitzgerald@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (64)(3) 364-2337 Voice, 364-2332 FAX
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