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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Funny Configuration
Keywords: Hardware
Message-ID: <4224@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 89 02:54:32 GMT
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In article <4031@brazos.Rice.edu> Chuck_SirVAX_Staatse@cup.portal.com writes:
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|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?