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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Ste fix for 2.5 meg upgrade?
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Date: 19 Apr 91 00:32:19 GMT
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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.


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