🚀 go-pugleaf

>>:>>>
>>:>>>You must put the most rapid one in the first bank. If you put the 70ns in the first
>>:>>>bank, all your memory will works at 70ns. If you put the 60ns in the first bank, 
>>:>>>and if with luck, the 70ns can work at 60ns, your system will work at 60ns.
>>:>>>If not, your system will simply switch at 70ns!
>>:>>>
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>>That is a BIG NO-NO!!!
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>>The recommended thing to do is put the SLOWEST memory in the first bank!  The 
>>reason is this: the fast chip can always slow down to the speed of the slow 
>>chip, but the slow chip can't keep up with the fast one...
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>>OS/2 will access ALL memory at the speed of the chips in bank 1.  So if you 
>>have the 60ns chips in bank 1, OS/2 will access the 70ns chips at 60ns... and 
>>you'll probably bomb.
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>>It's never recommended to mix n match speeds, but if you have to, follow the 
>>above rule.

I don't know who wrote this statement, and it really doesn't matter. However,
I am getting way sick of people who do not know have a clue 
making assumptions and giving the impression that they know what
they are talking about.

Now hear this. OS/2, W95, and even the mighty UNIX, have absolutely no
idea what the speed of the memory is. They don't care, it matters not at all,
and anyone who says that the OS knows, or cares, is wrong. Plain and 
simple!

And, if you have a Pentium, listen up. The pentium CPU will gobble up 2 simms
at a time when it accesses the memory. Its bus requires 2 simms to even work.
Put only one 32M device in your pentium, and it won't even run. Everyone
quit saying that it reads the first one, then adjusts everything to that one 
device. It reads 2 devices at a time. 2 at a time. Repeat after me, the 
P5 bus requires 2 simm devices, not one.

Anyone who tells you that you can't mix speeds (meaning a 60ns in place of
a 70ns) is a bigger liar than the person who fits the above scenario. If your
motherboard and bios supports 70ns RAM, you can put 10ns Ram in those 
slots and the system won't give a rat's ass! If you put a SLOWER device in,
then you have a potential problem.

have we got it now? Mix the speeds. faster won't hurt! No OS on the planet
can determine ram access speed! No OS cares!

Now for the corny line. I design embedded controllers and computer systems
and I know what I am talking about. Challenge me, flame me, I don't care.
I do know what I a talking about in this area. Can't we all just get along?

Thank you.

Regards,

John