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From: tlk@milton.u.washington.edu (Jeremy Norberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New SE/30 problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.173719.8604@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 17:37:19 GMT
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russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
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>In article <676094904.5@blkcat.FidoNet> Bill.Whitacre@p916.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Bill Whitacre) writes:
>>I sure could use some help with a perplexing problem.
>>
>>These are SE/30's that've been upgraded to 5MB of RAM by Falcon (the sole GSA vendor for Apple h/ware!) and internal 40MB hard drives.
>>
>>Turning on the machines out of the box we got the question mark'd disk instead of booting from the internal HD.  After booting from a floppy and having it recognize the HD it would boot from it upon restart.  Then, in unpredictable places while running va
>>rious s/ware the machine would hang with various errors from 'out of memory' to 'bus error' to plain old 'system error'.  Sometimes they won't recognize a floppy that's shoved in, sometimes they will.
>>
>>It's all very strange and quite disturbing.  I have never had a problem with getting a Mac out of the box and having it fire up just fine.

>In the wild guess arena-- Is the RAM the proper speed rating for the SE/30
>(I think 120ns is required, but it could be 100ns)
>--
>Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
>     .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.

The SE/30 as well as everything above it require 100ns chips or better!!

Only Plus/Classic can use 120ns SIMMS.
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           Jeremy C. Norberg                   tlk@u.washington.edu