Chuck_SirVAX_Staatse@cup.portal.com (12/30/89)
I tried something funny with my 4/330 and (you guessed it) I got something funny. I swapped the eight 4MB SIMMs that were on the CPU card with the eight 1MB SIMMs from the memory card. Although the total amount of memory had not changed (40MB), the system now only reported 28MB. Swapping the SIMMS back to their original positions gave me 40MB again. I don't see this as a problem since the fix is "Don't do it that way", but I would feel better knowing that this is a known anomaly instead of a unknown anomaly.
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (12/31/89)
In article <4031@brazos.Rice.edu> Chuck_SirVAX_Staatse@cup.portal.com writes: |X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 230, message 4 of 13 | |I tried something funny with my 4/330 and (you guessed it) I got something |funny. I swapped the eight 4MB SIMMs that were on the CPU card with the |eight 1MB SIMMs from the memory card. Although the total amount of memory |had not changed (40MB), the system now only reported 28MB. Swapping the |SIMMS back to their original positions gave me 40MB again. I don't see |this as a problem since the fix is "Don't do it that way", but I would |feel better knowing that this is a known anomaly instead of a unknown |anomaly. Did you change the jumpers on BOTH the CPU and memory cards to properly reflect the size of the SIMM's you were using?