On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote:
AHHH! MAN! Another "gotcha" on this PC!!
This "name brand" (Hewlett Packard Pavilion 6540C)
has more traps than I can imagine!! I just replaced the
modem, the video card, the sound card and now a
memory "gotcha" WOW! Nice case though :-) but
it only has a 90W power supply!!
Vern
> 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
>
> --
> 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!
YES! Here's a vote for TurboDOS!!
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