From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) Subject: Physical Memory Problems Date: 21 Oct 1992 17:58:30 GMT
In article <Oct.21.00.40.27.1992.7567@athos.rutgers.edu> keane@athos.rutgers.edu writes:
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>zwerin@xylophone.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Zwerin) writes:
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>>I have a Gateway 386-33 with 256K cache, initially it had 4 MB memory
>>(4 1M SIMMS, 80ns, three chips on each SIMM). In June, I purchased 4M
>>from Gateway. These new SIMMs are 70ns and have 9 chips each,
>>supposed to work fine.
>
>>The system boot time memory test never fails. But I was never once
>>able to compile 0.97. Each time I compiled, there was a different
>>problem, cc1 cpp and so on. The problems were not predictable nor
>>entirely reproducible.
>
>>So my question is has anyone else experienced anything like this?
>
>>Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
>
>>andy
>
> NOT ALL SIMMs ARE ALIKE!!
>
>This is a sad truth that I learned the hard way. I have a PC-Brand
>486/33 on which I am running Linux. The machine came with 4M of SIMMs
>installed in one bank of four 1Mx8 boards. I ran for about a month or
>so without problems, and then decided to upgrade the memory.
>
>Anyway, the moral of the story is that there's apparently a lot more
>to SIMMs than meets the eye. Your best bet is probably to insist on
>getting *exactly* the same SIMMs as you already have. You might pay a
>few bucks more, but you would avoid several rounds of "waiting for UPS
>to arrive", and a lot of aggravation. It's been a learning experience
>for me! Good luck!
>
>_John_
>
>
On a brighter note I've got 2 4mb 9 chip simms and 2 1mb 3 chip simms
in my 386sx25 ,compiles of the 0.98 kernel work just fine using gcc222d7
under 0.98
anthony
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