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Help with memory upgrade!

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From: Payman Parastaran
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 09:46
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I had felt the need to upgrade the memory on my Zenith 248-LP/12 to 3Mb
to 3Mb of memory.  I took a netter's advice and ordered the chips from chip
merchant.  I asked for 1x9 80ns SIMM chips (2 of them.)  I went through the 
installation procedure verbatim out of the manual, except that the manual
lead me to believe I had to rewire a jumper to pins 1 & 2 but later I figured
out that that only applied to expansion to 6Mb.  After installation, the
setup screen came on and I set the expansion memory to 2048K (extended.) 
Booted up again, and the diagnostics tell me that the expansion memory is
set to 2048K but no expansion memory was detected.  Every diagnostic tells
me that it can't find any extended memory.  What gives?  Is there any way
to track down the source of the problem?  I don't know if it's the chips, the
motherboard, the simm sockets or what.

Is it possible to configure the machine to 2Mb of memory with just the (2)
1Mb Simms?  I don't think this is possible...I tried it, but maybe I wasn't
doing something right.  

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.  I would even welcome sheer
speculation.  Thanks for your time.

  --Payman

PS  During setup I forgot what to set my Hard Disk drive type to and I don't
have that written down anywhere.  Would you happen to know this number? My
hard drive is the factory pre-installed 20Mb drive, if that helps any.
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Subject: Help with memory upgrade!
Keywords: zenith, memory, upgrade, simm
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Date: 27 Jan 91 09:46:41 GMT
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