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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
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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.

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