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Article #11878

Re: What good are Bios RAM tests ?

#11878
From: Bowie Poag
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:31
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In article <1jagkpINNarn@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us
(Marc Unangst) writes:
>In article <1993Jan15.111338.11134@dmu.ac.uk> cph@dmu.ac.uk (Chris Hand)
writes:
>
>>When I bought the latter, I asked the sales guy if they would work on my 
>>motherboard and he said "if it will take 4 Meg SIMMs, it will work with
>>3-chip SIMMs".  When I spoke to the people I bought the motherboard from
>>they said "that motherboard doesn't work with 4 Meg SIMMs".
>>
>>Does anyone *really* KNOW???!!  I have had CheckIt recommended to me
>
>Do you have difficulty putting two pieces of information together?
>
>Salesman #1 (the one you bought your SIMMs from) says, "If your
>motherboard works with 4MB SIMMs, then it will work with 3-chip 1MB
>SIMMs."
>
>Salesman #2 (the one you bought your motherboard from) says, "Your
>motherboard won't work with 4MB SIMMs."
>
>From those two statements it seems fairly clear to me that your
>motherboard won't work with 3-chip SIMMs.  From the problems you've
>been having, I'd say that my theory is correct.  Why don't you take
>your 3-chip SIMMs back, exchange them for 9-chip SIMMs, and see if
>that fixes the problems?
>
>-- 
>Marc Unangst, N8VRH         | "Of course, in order to understand this you
>mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   |  have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
>                            |  is squishy."
>                            |    -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture



(giggle)... sorry, I cant help this..

Maybe you should just get an Amiga, where you just go out and buy a RAM card,
drop it in your machine, turn it on, and the system configures it for you. :)



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