Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:46:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: ticso@cicely.de, Josh Tolbert <hemi@scoundrelz.net>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0? Message-ID: <3DB06532.5F566701@mindspring.com> References: <15790.54958.628923.428888@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20021018034632.E42572-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> <20021018134330.B43173@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20021018130729.GJ465@cicely8.cicely.de> <20021018160345.A43412@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > I'm 99% sure this box uses FPM ECC RAMS, not EDO. > > > > It's designed to run with FPM ECC PS/2 Simms at 70ns. > > But it shouldn't matter if you plug in EDO Simms as the chipsset can't > > interleave - the board is single banked anyway. > > A couple of my colleagues were responsible for qualing/sourcing RAMs. > They told me, and had data to prove it, that ALphas can be quite picky for > their memory. Trying other memory might be a good idea. Mine is picky enough that it refuses to run if you use Simms with gold connectors instead of tin. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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