[rescue] memory trade, anyone? (and misc. x86 rambling)

[Dan Sikorski]

On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 15:29, Loomis, Rip wrote:
> If some memory weenie can answer this, I would love
> to know the details myself.  From what I've been
> able to find, it seems to be related to the newer
> higher-density chips, and possibly the way refresh
> cycles are handled.  I ended up trading a 256MB
> PC133 DIMM straight-up for a 128MB PC133 DIMM that
> a FOAF had--because the 128MB stick worked in my
> target system.  I'm about to buy DIMMs to populate
> an old TX motherboard, and I'm probably going to
> specifically buy 128MB PC100 DIMMs even though the
> MB supports a single 256MB DIMM--just so that I
> can minimize potential problems.  It's a pain, but
> it's still cheaper than buying EDO 72-pin SIMMs
> for the older systems...

My problem doesn't seem to be that they are high density either, I have
a high density DIMM in my SD-11 that works fine.

	-Dan