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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Request to add this to FAQ re: swap space
To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
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> > Joe Greco wrote (about the ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D):
> > > I can't get anything more than 192MB to work reliably on this board
> > > (6 x 32MB SIMM modules) - unless we go with the mega mondo $$$$ 64MB
> > > SIMM's..  and even those I have doubts about.  We put the 4 that we 
> > > have on a P/I-P55T2P4 board and it refused to work until we relaxed 
> > > the RAM timing to 70ns.  Gives me a sick feeling.
> > 
> > I am running 5 P55T2P4D boards with 256MB (4x64MB) and they
> > are running fine (all RAM is being used by the OS). The memory
> > is '1st grade RAM' (whatever that may be, although definately more
> > expensive) and was specicially imported for these machines.
> 
> But youv'e only half loaded the board, it has 8 simm sockets, try
> even adding 2 more simms and watch what happens to your stability....
> 
> The crux is, we went to the T2P4D for the 8 simm sockets, and I have
> yet to see one of these boards run correctly with even 8 single sided
> 12 chip simm modules in it!
> 
> ANYONE out there have one of these boards with 8 simms in it working?

I believe that Curt and I tried it with lower capacity SIMM modules,
i.e. 8 x 16MB SIMM's, and it worked.  I am not sure, however.

What about other boards?

I see the "ASUS P/I-P65UP5", apparently you can stick either a dual
Pentium or dual Pentium Pro CPU card in this beast, also 8 SIMM slots
and support for 512MB RAM.

I see the "ASUS P/I-P6RP4" which only has four sockets but claims to
support 128MB memory modules.  Not sure I would trust that since they
can't even seem to make the 64MB's work right.  And I'm not up enough
on my chipsets to know what the "450KX" chipset is.

... JG