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From: jalbert@cs.ubc.ca (Francois Jalbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Everex RAM-3000 Deluxe Failures
Summary: Be cautious when buying Everex
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Date: 21 Feb 90 02:13:58 GMT
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Reply-To: jalbert@cs.ubc.ca (Francois Jalbert)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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About a month ago, I bought an Everex RAM-3000 Deluxe (EV159), put 3 Mb on it as
extended using 100ns memory chips, left the W1 jumper on it for 2 wait states,
and tried it on my 14/9 MHz 80286. All worked fine so I bought it. Now, after
5 weeks of use, the Everex is failing. Certain rows and columns of the
matrix of memory chips fail. Swapping/replacing memory chips doesn't help.
The board works fine in the 12/8 MHz 80286 of a friend though. The newly found
problem is obviously linked to the bus speed. However, nowhere in the 
documentation is a possible bus speed limit mentioned. Of course, I had checked
thoroughly for such a potential limitation in the documentation before buying.
The Everex technical support was useless. Their argument is: Our boards work
on some 20MHz 80386's, and fail on some 8MHz 80286's. Tough luck, buddy.
Needless to say, I am not too happy and have no choice but to sell the board.
I would just like to warn anybody out there to at least try any Everex board
in your machine before buying. I agree I did that and it didn't help, but do
it anyway. And don't expect any help from Everex if it fails after a while.
I will give Tall Tree Systems a ring tomorrow and see what they can offer.

                                  Francois
                                      '
P.S. I won't touch an Everex product for the rest of my life!