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- From: dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: What good are Bios RAM tests ?
- References: <1jagkpINNarn@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Message-ID: <dmkasten.05bf@redorc.chi.il.us>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:31:32 CST
- Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network
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- In article <1jagkpINNarn@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us
- (Marc Unangst) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan15.111338.11134@dmu.ac.uk> cph@dmu.ac.uk (Chris Hand)
- writes:
- >
- >>When I bought the latter, I asked the sales guy if they would work on my
- >>motherboard and he said "if it will take 4 Meg SIMMs, it will work with
- >>3-chip SIMMs". When I spoke to the people I bought the motherboard from
- >>they said "that motherboard doesn't work with 4 Meg SIMMs".
- >>
- >>Does anyone *really* KNOW???!! I have had CheckIt recommended to me
- >
- >Do you have difficulty putting two pieces of information together?
- >
- >Salesman #1 (the one you bought your SIMMs from) says, "If your
- >motherboard works with 4MB SIMMs, then it will work with 3-chip 1MB
- >SIMMs."
- >
- >Salesman #2 (the one you bought your motherboard from) says, "Your
- >motherboard won't work with 4MB SIMMs."
- >
- >From those two statements it seems fairly clear to me that your
- >motherboard won't work with 3-chip SIMMs. From the problems you've
- >been having, I'd say that my theory is correct. Why don't you take
- >your 3-chip SIMMs back, exchange them for 9-chip SIMMs, and see if
- >that fixes the problems?
- >
- >--
- >Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Of course, in order to understand this you
- >mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
- > | is squishy."
- > | -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
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-
- (giggle)... sorry, I cant help this..
-
- Maybe you should just get an Amiga, where you just go out and buy a RAM card,
- drop it in your machine, turn it on, and the system configures it for you. :)
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- |o| I think, therefore I Amiga. |=|
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- | Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | Amiga 2000HD/5 with a tiny |
- | dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us | little 21" Toshiba monitor.|
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