[comp.sys.att] Adding memory to a 6386

rab@hal.CWRU.Edu (Roger Bielefeld) (12/04/90)

I took the four 256K SIMMs out of a 6386 and loaded up the
memory board with 16 1M SIMMs, just like the vendor said I
could.  When I run the AT&T Customer Diagnostics program
to tell the CMOS how much extended memory I have, it rejects
all values other than zero.  There are some DIP switches on
the memory board.  Is that the problem?  If so, could some
kind soul please send me the correct switch settings?  None
of the documentation that came with the machine says anything
about the memory board.  Thank you.

--
Roger Bielefeld     Case Western Reserve University
rab@hal.cwru.edu    Cleveland, Ohio  USA

ehopper@ehpcb.WLK.COM (Ed Hopper) (12/05/90)

rab@hal.CWRU.Edu (Roger Bielefeld) writes:

> I took the four 256K SIMMs out of a 6386 and loaded up the
> memory board with 16 1M SIMMs, just like the vendor said I
> could.  When I run the AT&T Customer Diagnostics program
> to tell the CMOS how much extended memory I have, it rejects
> all values other than zero.  There are some DIP switches on
> the memory board.  Is that the problem?  If so, could some
> kind soul please send me the correct switch settings?  None
> of the documentation that came with the machine says anything
> about the memory board.  Thank you.

From the Olivetti 386PC service manual (an old DRAFT copy so it could be
out of date!!)

         Switch L07LL                          Switch L06LL
         -----------------------------------   ------------------
Board #  RAM   Parity  Banks              Page       Address  Boundary
         Inst          Installed Enabled  Selection  Upper    Lower
               1      23        4        5678       1234     5678
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                   (1MB SIMMS)

  1      4MB   0      11        0        0000       0011     0000
  1      8MB   0      10        0        0000       0111     0000
  1     16MB   0      00        0        0000       1111     0000

  2      4MB   0      11        0        0001       0011     0000
  2      8MB   0      10        0        0001       0111     0000
  2     16MB   0      00        0        0001       1111     0000

  3      4MB   0      11        0        0010       0011     0000
  3      8MB   0      10        0        0010       0111     0000
  3     16MB   0      00        0        0010       1111     0000


                   (256K SIMMS)

  1      1MB   0      11        0        0000       0000     0000
  1      2MB   0      10        0        0000       0001     0000
  1      4MB   0      00        0        0000       0011     0000

  2      1MB   0      11        0        0000       0100     0100
  2      2MB   0      10        0        0000       0101     0100
  2      4MB   0      00        0        0000       0111     0100

  3      1MB   0      11        0        0000       1000     1000
  3      2MB   0      10        0        0000       1001     1000
  3      4MB   0      00        0        0000       1011     1000

These two switches are located in the top center of the board between
the two columns of SIMMS.

Ed Hopper

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