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From: nova!hart@decwrl.dec.com (Howard C. Hart)
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Subject: Re: 3/80 memory strangeness..
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 23 Aug 89 18:52:23 GMT
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In article <791@brazos.Rice.edu> mead%hamal.usc.edu@usc.edu (Dick Mead) writes:
>Looking for ideas on a strange problem encountered while trying to upgrade
>a 3/80's memory.  An attempt was made to upgrade from 8 meg to 12 meg, but
>with the 12 meg installed, the system never booted, in fact, the startup

I took Sun's Sparcstation and 3/80 class at Sun Expo. If I remember right,
the order of memory insertion is very important, and not in consecutive
slots. Since the system comes preconfigured with 8MB, and 16MB is a fully
populated machine, could it be that you inserted the additional 4MB in the
wrong slot order? Just a guess.

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