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The thing that is strange is that I booted the machine just fine off the drive before swapping the memory (with the idea of changing 1 thing at a time), then after swapping the memory it no longer will boot off the 16 bit bus. Yet it works from the 8 bit bus. How can memory have anything to do with it? Yet that is what changed.
I have re-verified the memory is sitting correctly several times now.
I changed the CPU from a 604/233 to a G3/400 just prior, but it had rebooted several times without any problems.
I'm so, uh, well, bewildered I guess. And frustrated ;-) And...
I guess it couldn't hurt to remove some of the memory and see what happens. If that fixes it, though, where does that leave it? I haven't a clue.
I'm not an electrical engineer and I hope any lister who is will correct me and not laugh too hard, but here goes.
Perhaps the size of the DIMMs is smaller than the card wants to see for whatever it needs RAM for
And maybe the jump from DIMM to DIMM interrupts the process. Could you try it with a Single larger DIMM ?
Another possibility is a problem in the slot circuitry. A PCI mobo I used to have had one slot that refused to perform with every card put in it. It worked with some, but not all. Bad trace ? Bad solder joint at a chip ?
I don't know.
-- Adrian
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