Every day I learn something new. Today I was at
www.aberdeeninc.com checking memory prices and I saw PC100 SDRAM
advertised. And in the ads it was stated, rather bluntly,
Do NOT use with Intel 810/820/840 Chipset Motherboards
Those folks sell a lot of hardware and they back it. Their techs
are pretty good techs and better statisticians. I smell another
hardware problem, and I have an 810 board from a reliable
manufacturer sitting on my desk with memory not certified for
it. I am ordering, as soon as I can afford it, some memory to
the specs of the 810 chipsets et al. Then we will see if the
errors observed under AIR and Windoze repeat.
That Soyo Board has the strangest series of blue screens with
windows.... Yet my FreeBSD3.3 is stable on it, which suggests
something very unusual. Now it seems it might be a timing
problem between chipset and memory which windows isn't capable of
handling, and which advanced code exacerbates.
Anyway, i810 owners out there take note and watch where you buy
memory. Another concealed punji trap in the upgrade wars.
Civileme
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Anyone remember TurboDOS? How about Formula/Formula II or
Final Word? Or the OKIData 3300 74Mb HDD which was successfully
placed on a micro in 1977. 100lbs of platters in 14" format
fitting nicely into a rack.... And a bargain at $6000!
