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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!nntp.primenet.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net!usenet From: madbrain@ibm.net (Julien Pierre) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: Can I mix memory speeds Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 04:50:55 -0400 Organization: Somewhere in Cyberspace Lines: 27 Message-ID: <vZg6xQxFKJLc089yn@ibm.net> References: <4rbvq2$34i@news.enterprise.net> <4re1ii$14f5@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <31DAA423.75FEABEE@uiuc.edu> <31E07EA8.66E140D7@henge.com> <31E6880E.408D@nome.net> <DuGFsJ.5Ao@kroete2.freinet.de> Reply-To: madbrain@ibm.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip129-37-246-66.fl.us.ibm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.hardware:44521 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:159822 comp.os.os2.setup.misc:17235 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23593 Hi ! In article <DuGFsJ.5Ao@kroete2.freinet.de>, ehcorry@inet.uni-c.dk (Erik Corry) wrote: >Ramon Gandia (nsrfg@nome.net) wrote: >: >: An EDO module in a non-EDO motherboard gives you plain memory >: operation. > >Not always. > >An EDO module in an ASUS PCI 486SP3 or SP3G gives you no operation >at all. This board uses the Saturn chipset which does interleave >and can't cope with EDO. True. I had to buy a non-EDO SIMM when I upgraded my Asus 486 from 16 to 32MB. I tried exchanging them with the EDO SIMMs in my Pentium, and the machine did not boot. -- //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Julien R. Pierre // Developer of Digital Sound & Music Interface for OS/2 (DSMI/2) // http://www.netsrq.com/~madbrain/ - DSMI/2 homepage // http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/Madbrain/ - personal page // Certified OS/2 Engineer - Multimedia Developer - 1-941-366-5355