Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 17:24:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Nash <alex@zen.nash.org> To: dunn@harborcom.net Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, hal@wwa.com Subject: Re: Mixing SIMMs of different speeds Message-ID: <199606222224.RAA07389@zen.nash.org>
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> What I have always been told is that put the slowest chips first. > Most motherboards set the speed at which they access memory by the > speed of the first chip. Therefore if you put the 70 after the 60, it > will try to access the 70 at 60, which is no good. But the other way > around, it will access the 60 at 70, which works fine. Just as I suspected, thanks for verifying this. I'll give this a try just as soon as my verify-the-70ns-work-ok-standalone-by- running-make-world finishes (which should be any minute now as it just entered the install phase). Alex
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