Actually, that might not be enough. The PWS a/au ran the memory at 83 Mhz. At the time these machines were new, very few RAM vendors made memory that could be used in these puppies and Digital had a rigourous qual for the vendors to pass.
Just get PC100 (or better) ECC, unregistered DIMMS and you should be fine. Jeff Donsbach > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher C. Chimelis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 12:34 AM > To: Rob Byrnes > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Slllloooowwww Alpha > > > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Rob Byrnes wrote: > > > Well, after running the PWS for a while now, I'm not seeing > any machine > > checks being logged at all. It seems odd, considering the > checks made > > Debian unusable. > > > > Also checked what sort of memory Crucial are shipping, > seems to be a little > > slower than (what most people consider) spec at 66MHz. > Wonder if this has > > anything to do with it? > > Probably not. 66MHz should be fine for PWS, IIRC. I don't > think that any > systems before PC164-SX/LX needed 100MHz. > > C > >
