Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sjsca4!molehill!poffen From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: can I put four floppies in an AT clone Keywords: everex ram memory extended expanded Message-ID: <1990Jan6.222954.5913@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 6 Jan 90 22:29:54 GMT References: <10767@ucsd.Edu> <88@slvblc.UUCP> <4635@hydra.gatech.EDU> Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA Lines: 28 In article <4635@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes: >In article <88@slvblc.UUCP>, dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan) writes: >> I have two of the Everex RAM-3000 boards. They are EXTended memory boards, >> *not* EXPanded memory boards. LIM in any form is not supported on the board. As has been re-iterated here before, the RAM-3000 DOES support LIM 3.2 in hardware, and now has a driver for LIM 4.0 >Also, how well do they work? I'm considering getting a few of them, but if >they don't work well with our software, I would be wasting money. Primarily >used with Windows/286, Excel, Lotus, Word Perfect, MathCad, AutoCad, and a few >other memory-hungry applications. > I had trouble with a RAM-3000 in my AT clone (PCC motherboard, Phoenix BIOS). It would give random parity errors and lock up the system. IT did this with TWO different boards in TWO different systems (not the same model of system either) I therefore think that there may be some incompatibilities with the RAM-3000 in some systems. I would suggest an Intel Aboveboard. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254