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From: vcl@mimas.UUCP (Victor C. Limary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 256K SIMMs with 1M SIMMs?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 03:49:39 GMT
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ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler) writes:

> In article <goldberg.676754503@du248-16.cc.iastate.edu> goldberg@iastate.edu 
> >In <17218@helios.TAMU.EDU> sam4628@rigel.tamu.edu (MCCLUNEY, STEVEN ALEXANDE
> >
> >>I have a computer (well, a Golstar GT316 at any rate) with two 1 MB SIMMs
> >>in it. I also have several 256K SIMMs available. Can both be used in the
> >>same computer at the same time? If it makes any difference, the computer
> >>is a 16 MHz 386SX. Thanks in advance (or in retreat, for that matter...)
> [stuff deleted]
> >The boards I've heard of that
> >allow you to do this are high-end 386 or 486 machines, but again, they're
> >designed for 1M/4M not 256k/1M.
> 
> 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 ...
> 

I've got a 386 machine that the manual says accepts 1meg x 9 SIMMS 
(although it also takes 256k x 9 SIMMs).  I haven't tried mixing the 256k 
SIMMs with the 1 meg ones, for fear that something might happen.  

On a slightly different note, my computer was designed before 4meg SIMMs 
came out.  I've got a Leading Edge 386 16Mhz (NOT SX), with Phoenix BIOS 
and Chips and Tech chipset.  The motherboard's madeby Daewoo I think.  
Does anybody know if the 4meg strips will/might work in my machine?

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