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Message ID: 21
#21, RE: Megathread Prevention
Posted by megazone on Nov-21-01 at 03:25 AM
In response to message #20
>My lovely Socket A mobo is VERY picky about it's RAM... does not like
>the higher density chips <spent an hour talking with a tech at Crucial
>divining why two clips of PC133 CAS2 refused to work in my system,
>what I get for being an early adopter>. Prolly not the problem, but
>something to keep in mind.

Interestingly this is with 4 256MB sticks of registered PC2100 ECC DDR SDRAM - from Crucial.

Jer and I both didn't think the 'ECC" bit should be an issue - and the MB wants PC1600 or PC2100 DDR SDRAM - unregistered is ok for 2 sticks, but registered for 4.

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