Re: tlug: My beeping 486 followup

[Sean Bennett <sean@example.com>]

Just a follow-up to my beeping 486 and memory chips;  the official reply from
Micron was

>    1.      Non-Parity only
>    2.      No faster the 70ns
>    3.      It must be installed in pairs.
>
>    Thank you for writing to Micron Technical Support

I guess on older boxes memory that is *too fast* can be an issue - just incase
anyone else gets the urge to revive an older system.

Sean.


Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, J. Sean Bennett wrote:
>
> > getting my 486 linux box up and running.  ... but it wouldn't boot - just a
> series of
> > beeps; could it be that the ram is too fast, a parity/nonparity thing, or ...
>
> There's no such thing as too fast :-)
> If the memory came from a Pentium system, it's probably EDO, unless it was a
> very, very old Pentium [...]

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