Rumor has it that Francis. Javier Mesa may have mentioned these words:
>On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Tom Owad wrote:
[snip]
> I power up the DEC, it does its whirling and spinning
>> up, but I never get anything at all on my terminal. I've tried booting
>> with the S3 switch (whicdh I understand is supposed to change from kb/
>> mouse/monitor to console mode) in both directions, but to no avail.
>>
>> The LED on the front reads "FD". It's possible that the RAM I have
>> installed (which I got from another DEC 3000) is not appropriate for the
>> system.
>
>Putting RAM is also tricky, you need to put them in groups of 8 simms per
>bank, all of the same type in each bank. A bank is defined by all the
>simms at the same height (the model 600, which I am familiar with has the
[snip]
I very well could be wrong here, but my DEC 3000/300 (desktop machine,
150Mhz Alpha, 64Meg RAM uses banks of 4 each standard 72-pin true parity
SIMMs... Were there any DEC 3000's that *required* 8 SIMMs in a bank? (or,
more accurately, are the DEC 3000/300's the only 3000's that need only 4
SIMMs per bank?)
Cheers,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
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Received on Mon Aug 06 2001 - 20:00:17 BST