pdel@ADS.COM (Peter Delevoryas) (04/19/91)
I just upgraded my STe to 2.5 megs like it says to do in the March '91 issue of Atari interface. I put the 1 meg simms in slots 1 & 3 (from back to front) and the other 2 256k'ers in slots 2 & 4. However, a memory checker says I have 4 meg. they said this would happen, so go get a program called simmfix.arc that's s'posed to fix this. Well, I looked on compuserve and Delphi and didn't find anything. I also looked on atari.archive but don't know if the file is called something else. Anyone have any clues or fixes for this? thanks, Peter D. -- login name: L1-A In real life: Peter Delevoryas In any other life: a cheap imitation
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (04/19/91)
In article <-P6&-`$@ads.com> pdel@ADS.COM (Peter Delevoryas) writes: >I just upgraded my STe to 2.5 megs like it says to do in the March '91 >issue of Atari interface. >I put the 1 meg simms in slots 1 & 3 (from back to front) and the other >2 256k'ers in slots 2 & 4. >However, a memory checker says I have 4 meg. they said this would happen, >so go get a program called simmfix.arc that's s'posed to fix this. > I tried SIMMFIX a few months ago, and it worked fine, when it did. The program is 248 BYTES long, and the computer wouldn't always recognize it as a program. I would sometimes get a TOS Error #35. The solution to this problem is to either go with two megs or go with four. BTW, SIMM prices seem to be on the rise. I bought two 1megx8 80ns in Jan for around $85. I bought two more this past week for around $97. -- Ed Krimen ............................................... ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0
pdel@ADS.COM (Peter Delevoryas) (04/19/91)
>I tried SIMMFIX a few months ago, and it worked fine, when it did. Where did you get simmfix? >BTW, SIMM prices seem to be on the rise. I know, I think I'll get two more before they go up. $42 at Peripheral Outlet (80ns), but after COD and shipping, 2 of 'em = $97 -- login name: L1-A In real life: Peter Delevoryas In any other life: a cheap imitation
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (05/14/91)
In article writes: > >I just upgraded my STe to 2.5 megs like it says to do in the March '91 >issue of Atari interface. >I put the 1 meg simms in slots 1 & 3 (from back to front) and the other >2 256k'ers in slots 2 & 4. >However, a memory checker says I have 4 meg. they said this would happen, >so go get a program called simmfix.arc that's s'posed to fix this. > >Well, I looked on compuserve and Delphi and didn't find anything. I also >looked on atari.archive but don't know if the file is called something >else. > >Anyone have any clues or fixes for this? > It's at atari.archive, like PATCH302 (the NeoDesk patch) was. I don't know where Jeff Weiner put it. Jeff? :^) I tried using SIMMFIX, but the computer would rarely recognize it when it would run. I would get a TOS ERROR 35 when run from the desktop, or nothing when it was run from the AUTO folder. Therefore, I was using 2megs until I upgraded to 4 recently. The executable file is only 248 BYTES long, but I don't think that would be a basis for it not running. Another disadvantage with the program is that it requires a warmboot to reconfigure the memory. -- ||| Ed Krimen [ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu or al661@cleveland.freenet.edu] ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 TWO WEEKS UNTIL GRADUATION!!