At 22:14 -0400 04/27/2002, Dusan Kostic wrote:

>Does anyone know if OS loads first in soldered RAM? After all, it can
>fit more than enough for 8.5.1.

If we knew that, we wouldn't need a sandwich or we might only need 
one side of the sandwich (open face sandwich).   It appears that the 
OS uses memory both at the bottom addresses and at the top addresses 
of the address space the RAM occupies.   But the RAM used at the top 
addresses is much less.  The problem is no one seems to know whether 
the soldered RAM is at the top addresses or the bottom addresses or 
for that matter, in which order the DIMM sockets are addressed.

With a defective DIMM, it might be possible to figure this out.   And 
I just had one a little over a week ago, that I already replaced 
without thinking about that.  Oh, but that DIMM wouldn't even let the 
machine boot so it's not a lost opportunity.  You need a defective 
DIMM that fails RAMometer after a few iterations.

Jeff Walther

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