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Thanks to all for your suggestions.
My parts supplier suggested it must be incompitability between the old and
the new DIMMs. He's offered to swap the old for new under warranty.
Good onya Bozzo.
Stevo

Stevo wrote in message <358B0FD6.B4BA337B@powerup.com.au>...
>Hi all,
>
>I've just installed an extra 32Mb SDRAM to my Cyrix 686 based machine to
>give a total of 64Mb. The CPU is a 686MX P200 running at 2x75MHz. It was
>running fine at this setting before the memory upgrade but now is very
>unstable (system lock-ups) at that speed. Using the P166 setting of 66x2
>everything is solid as a rock.
>8 months ago, when first setting up this CPU, motherboard and first
>stick of 32 Mb SDRAM I had similar problems. I ran it at the P166
>setting for a couple of weeks, re-set to P200 setting and it worked
>fine. Do these things take time to run in? I had thought it might have
>something to do with the video card (S3 Virge2D/3D 4Mb) as the lock ups
>frequently occur when doing something graphicaly intesive (games or all
>the time with the OpenGL screensavers) but also during a windows session
>(moving the mouse?). I'm only asking out of curiosity as I'm really
>happy with the system now. Even runs those groovy OpenGL screen savers!
>Any ideas?
>Cheers
>Stevo