RAM question

[Jo Dillon]

On Thursday 15 November 2001 21:50, Benjamin Minshall wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> This could be an issue related to "high-density" or "low-density" 256MB
> DIMMs.  I don't know a lot about it, but I ran into some machines that were
> only rated for 128MB chips, yet could use low-density 256MB DIMMs.  Perhaps
> someone else could (in)validate my speculation?

  Another possibility is it only has enough cache for 512MB worth of memory.
In that case it'd boot and recognise the memory but any access that happened 
to hit the high 512MB of memory would be extremely slow. So the system would 
appear (possibly intermittently) about as fast as a 386 ;)

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	Jo