From: Bryan Daum (allied_at_teleport.com)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 13:19:04 EDT
James-
Thanks, I moved the old chip from slot one to slot two and installed the new
one in slot one. Thought you could use both.
Odd that it would make a difference as I presume the soldered one is still a
66mhz.
Bryan
"James H. E. Maugham" wrote:
> Bryan,
>
> Bryan Daum [mailto:allied_at_teleport.com] wrote:
>
> > I remembered the sequence -but am still finding that while the memory
> > count on start up shows the memory the memory test after start with F1
> > held hangs up....every time.
> >
> > Ugh.....I'm going to pull the new chip and retest this afternoon. I just
> > bought one 256 chip.
>
> Not sure of exactly what problems you're having, but a few thoughts to
> share. You can't mix & match old and new SO-DIMMs in the 600E. E.g., if
> you've got a 66MHz 64MB or 128MB piece, you can't mix it with a 100MHz 256MB
> piece. The MEMCOUNT will show all the memory, but it will often cause a BOOT
> failure or be unstable, at best.
>
> You can't put a 133MHz 256MB SO-DIMM in the 600E, it _must_ be 100MHz.
>
> I've got two pieces of Viking 256MB PC10032X64SODIMM (Viking Part No.
> 286172) in my 2645-4AU 600E.
>
> Results of the installation:
> MEMCOUNT: 556,480KB
> BIOS INSTALLED: 557,056KB
> BIOS USABLE: 556,480KB
> W2K: 556,400KB
>
> Regards,
>
> James
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