Re: Cache Ram chips..Help please

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From: Rajesh Varia
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <b5d9XBAdfOqwEwob@ch-w.demon.co.uk>
           jc@ch-w.demon.co.uk "John Chapple" writes:

> A friend of mine bought a Vesa motherboard with no cache ram.
> He sent for chips but when they came he found the chips only had fourteen 
> pairs of legs & the sockets had sixteen pairs, also he was sent 9 chips 
> but the board only has eight sockets together with one other socket 
> elsewhere, is it safe to plug the chips into all these sockets?
> Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!
> John Chapple                                         JC@ch-w.demon.co.uk
> 

Seems he was sent 32k chips which is fine for taking the board upto 256k.
(make sure that pin 1 is correctly matched to the socket)

The 32 leg chips are 64k chips which is used for 512k of cache.

The extra chip is for TAG socket which is the parity bit of cache.

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Rajesh Varia     raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk

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