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From: scott@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Different Time-Rated Chips on the Computer
Message-ID: <14202.26d270cf@max.u.washington.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 90 18:47:27 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle WA
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Hello,
I have an 6-Meg 386 computer that I have purchased a year ago or so.
It has been work almost flawlessly since then, but still have few
questions that I hope someone could help me with.
 
Originally the 386 came with only 1-Meg populated on the motherboard
with 256K-1bit-80ns chips. Since then, I have added an additional
5-Meg of memory in the following form:
 
            Motherboard
            1 Meg of 256K-1bit-100ns
 
            Add-on board
            3 Meg of 256K-1bit-100ns
            1 Meg of 256K-1bit-150ns
 
My 386 has a clock speed of 20Mhz, switchable to 25Mhz turbo mode, and
it has a buffer cycle of 8Mhz.
 
As you can see, I have several different time-rated chips in my computer,
most of which are above the recommended 80ns.
My question is this: Is there any danger or problems to my computer that
I should know about if I want to keep my computer with these memory chips?
Is this only a prelure for an impending break-down of my computer?
For the few months since I had this setup, my computer has worked fine
for all applications, including Windows 3.0. However, since I will be doing
some lengthy works on my computer, it would be catastrophic if my
computer would start suffering from chronic crashed or breakdowns,
especially in the middle of my work.
Any comments will be appreciated.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Scott K. Stephen