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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Getting memory added
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.173504.5846@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 20 Nov 90 17:35:04 GMT
References: <12080@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <12080@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> jennifer@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Jennifer Freeman) writes:
>I have a clone motherboard with 4 megs of SIPPS in it.  I want to add
>2 more megs but am having trouble.  The machine is a 386 20 MHz with
>the C&T chip set and pheonix ROMS.  The computer does not seem
>to want to acknowledge the additional memory.   It just test the orginal
>4 Megs on powerup and then if I set the SETUP to reflect the additional
>memory it says invaild memory configuration,  run setup.  So how do I get
>it to know the memory is present?


How big are the SIPP's? If they are 1M X 8 each, then you probably need to add
4 at a time because the 386(DX) requires a 32 bit data path. Adding only 2
SIPP's makes for a 16 bit wide path.

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