Fluxstringer wrote:@@@@@@@@@@@@@@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.
Are you smoking' the same thing the Apple designers are?
I remove the 32 mb DIMM's by pairs (a6/b6, a5/b5, etc.) until I was down to 1 pair left, attempting to initialize after each one, with the same failure. I removed those, and put in 2 64 MB DIMM's in A6/B6, and tried it again. It worked. Did you get that? IT WORKED. What the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is going on?
Other than this initialization issue, the 32 MB DIMM's have been fine.
I am so confused, baffled, stumped, puzzled, perplexed, mystified, and bewildered!
--> Russ
I'll take the " smoking " remark as you saying that I'm in a similar mindset , OK ?
My guess is that it is a buffering issue. Unless your smaller chips all hide defects which are not evident on superficial inspection.
I'm glad you made some headway. Now you have an idea of how to configure further.
-- Adrian
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