Subject: Re: RAM in IPX
To: Simon Raahauge DeSantis <xiamin@scdesantis.ne.mediaone.net>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/27/1998 17:10:41
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Simon Raahauge DeSantis wrote:
>I've got an IPX with no RAM at the moment. I plan to order some from
>MemoryX once I get the money together, but I was wondering about how
>the RAM needs to be configured. I've heard that I can put either two
>or four SIMMs in it, and that the SIMMs need to be the same size in
>groups of two. My question is since I'm only going to be buying two
>SIMMs, where do I put them? The four SIMM slots are in two groups of
>two, so would I put the two SIMMs into one group, or put one in the
>first slot in the first group, and the other in the first slot of the
>second group or what?

  The IPX can take them one at a time, not two.  The largest I've found to work
is 16mb, and they need to be parity SIMMs.  The cpu board should be silkscreened
to indicate which goes in first.

                            -Dave McGuire