🚀 go-pugleaf

jo...@newberry.microserve.com (John Hileman) wrote:

>>70ns simms (a p133 needs 60ns simms).  As for the motherboard, any with a
>>triton chipset is fine.  
>>
>Oh no!  Are you sure?  I am currently running a 486 DX4-100 and just 

Yup, he's sure. I would try your 70 ns simms with the new mainboard
and CPU first though, as 70ns does sometimes work fine. It's still a
gamble, but it might work)

>this week bought another 8 megs of 70ns memory to take me to 16 megs.  I'm 
>planning on moving to a P133 this summer and wanted to take the memory along.  

These 2 8 Mb simms have to be quite identical to work in a Pentium. 
(because of the 64 bit addressing pairs of simms are needed(2 x 32 =
64))
I've had occasions where two different 8 Mb simms work pefectly
together, but in my experience that is an exception.

>If it is true that 60ns is required, maybe my vendor would agree -- maybe for 
>some $$ -- to exchange the 70 ns 8 meg simm for a 60 ns unit.  Would my older  
>70ns simm and a new 60ns simm happily coexist in my existing DX4-100 system?

Well, doing this shouldn't be any problem, but it seems to depend a
little on the mainboard.


IJdo Dijkstra       aur...@xs4all.nl
----------------------------------------------
   http://www.xs4all.nl/~aurora
  CS student, Freelance sysadmin