Re: can't build functioning kernel on PC164

Brett McCormick (brett@speedy.speakeasy.org)
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:16:45 -0800 (PST)

I've tried this, but the machine fails to boot with only 64mb (4 simms
and jumpered or not)

The simms have 12 chips (4 on front, 8 on back)

--brett

On Tue, 24 December 1996, at 00:51:15, Jay A. Estabrook wrote:

> We had a spot of trouble a month or so back, trying to install
> 128Mb of memory in a PC164.
>
> The SIMMs were ones with *lots* of chips on them; if we ran only
> 4 SIMMs, ie 64Mb of memory, it was quite stable (this requires a
> jumper on the motherboard, to use 128-bit wide bus instead of the
> normal 256-bit wide bus when all 8 SIMM slots are used).
>
> See if cutting back to 64Mb helps. If so, try to replace those SIMMs
> with ones with as few chips as possible (ie higer density chips).
>
> Don't really understand why, but our systems have been quite stable
> since we did this.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --Jay++
>
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