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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,

That may be OK if the board can take more than one size of cache chip.

You have to watch the position as well as the orientation of the chips though.
Phone and ask to be sure !!


> also he was sent 9 chips but the board only has
> eight 
>sockets together with one other socket elsewhere,

That'll be the cache controler chip.


> is it safe to plug the chips
> into all these 
>sockets?

Only when you know where they go.


>Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

Get on the phone and check the details.

-- 
John Beardmore