Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!postgres!jdi From: jdi@postgres.uucp (John Irwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: 256K SIMMs with 1M SIMMs? Message-ID: <1991Jun13.002308.10862@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 13 Jun 91 00:23:08 GMT References: <17218@helios.TAMU.EDU> <13431@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Distribution: usa Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 21 In article <13431@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler) writes: >My "high end" 386 (33MHz) takes 256K and 1M - but not 4M, according to the >motherboard docs. I guess it really depends on what the board maker felt like >doing at the time ... Actually it depends on at what time the board maker felt like doing. :-) (Only the newer chip sets, such as the Chips&Tech Peak/386 set have DRAM controllers that can handle 4MB Simms). Speaking of which, the Amptron 386/33 motherboard I just bought (after my old crufty motherboard just wouldn't cut it) has been a delight. The Peak/386 chipset does pretty much everything you could want -- settable bus speeds, wait states, precharge times, bus delays, etc, etc, etc. I've been using ISC2.2 with no problems whatsoever, and am switching to ESIX V4 tomorrow -- I'll speak up if there are any problems. (The old motherboard used to freeze up when the system got hot) -- John jdi@postgres.berkeley.edu