From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 24 12:10:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09130 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:10:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from send1b.yahoomail.com (send1b.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA09086 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:10:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from giffunip@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19980124200954.26661.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Received: from [168.176.3.46] by send1b; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:09:54 PST Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:09:54 -0800 (PST) From: Pedro Giffuni Reply-To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Subject: Mixing 60 and 70ns SIMMS To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hello: My box (Compaq Deskpro/i) was designed to receive 70ns SIMMs, but I had to buy 60 ns SIMMs because they were easier to find (and cheaper :-). This is, of course not optimal, but it should work. I had a previous 8M SIMM (70ns) and I added two 60ns (8M each). The system board has 4M-70ns so this totals 28M (all is parity memory). The BIOS detects and checks all the memory without problem, but every operating systems has a different idea of the memory available: OS/2 Warp 3 reports 28M M$-Windows 95 26M FreeBSD 2.2.5R 16M I have tried changing the order of the SIMMs with no change. Any comments ? :-) cheers, Pedro. == --- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve ! http://www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com