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colorado@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Martin Snow) writes:

> I'm considering adding some more memory to my 386, and I'm not sure I 
> understand the constraints.  Right now I have 2MB, which I figure must
> be 2 "banks" or "simms" of 256K chips.  (Is this the correct terminology?)

I've just upgraded... What I had (and assume you have) was 8 x 256K SIMM
modules, making a total of 2MB.

I was told that I could either install 4 x 1MB SIMMs, and keep 4 of the
256K SIMMs giving a total of 5MB, or yank all the 256K SIMMs, and
replace them with 8 x 1MB SIMMs (that's what I did).

I was also told that if I had an SX instead of a DX, I could have
upgraded in groups of 2 instead of 4.

I'm not sure if the above is true, since my motherboard manual doesn't
mention having a mixture of 256K & 1MB SIMMs.

> I've gotten contradictory advice so far, so I figure I should get
> some more from the net. :-)

You're right... you got some more contradictory advice :-)

Frank.