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In article <4kuqs2$g76@usenet2.interramp.com>,
ir003870@interramp.com (Billy Ko) says:

>Excerpt from Inside OS/2 Warp, page 804:

>Some basic things to check for when a customer is experiencing trap errors of 
>any kind include:

>1. All memory SIMMs must be the same size and speed...
>2. All SIMMs should be from the same manufacturer.
>3. If the customer has mixed memory SIMMs, it may be possible to get them to 
>work, although this would be a configuration unsupported by OS/2

Unbelievable!

>If mixed memory SIMMs are being used, the customer must place the SLOWER 
>speed memory in the first or lowest address sockets.  This approach 
>occasionally works because OS/2 tests memory in the lower address space to 
>determine its speed, then runs ALL memory at that speed

This is utter garbage!

Who wrote this book?

>... because OS/2 tests memory in the lower address space to determine its
>speed, then runs ALL memory at that speed

Unbelieveable! OS/2 *cannot* "determine the speed of a bank of memory".
Period.

	-Kenny

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