wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) (07/04/90)
I recently purchased a new motherboard for my IBM-PC that contains 4 Meg of ram as DIPs and sockets for 4 Meg of RAM as SIMMs. When I went to put in the SIMM's, I discovered that the silver connector at the pin 1/30 position was absent. I put the SIMMs (1Meg x 9) in any way, and they seemed to work fine. However the motherboard manufacturer told me that pin 1 was used for addressing (pin 30 seems to be a ground or supply that is duplicated at pin 16), so perhaps I had not performed a valid test. I have called a number of other places to verify the pin-out on the SIMMs - all with no success. I would very much like to know what the pin-out on standard 1Meg x 9 SIMMs is. Any help would be appreciated. Bill Pearson