Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0?

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:07:29PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:43:30PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:48:22AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote:
> > 
> > EDO RAM??
> > 
> > I'm 99% sure this box uses FPM ECC RAMS, not EDO.
> 
> It's designed to run with FPM ECC PS/2 Simms at 70ns.
> But it shouldn't matter if you plug in EDO Simms as the chipsset can't
> interleave - the board is single banked anyway.

A couple of my colleagues were responsible for qualing/sourcing RAMs.
They told me, and had data to prove it, that ALphas can be quite picky for
their memory. Trying other memory might be a good idea.

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