72 Pin simm question

banesong

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here is a question for all you folk. I have an older dual pentium mobo (tyan) w/ 8 simm sockets (4 banks). I have both EDO and FPM simms (4 of each). Now my question is, as long as I don't mix within the banks, I can use both, right? ie:

bank0 FPM bank1 FPM
bank2 EDO bank3 EDO

Will this work, or will my system be so horribly unstable that it isn't worth it. (heh... anybody know what happens when you use parity SIMMs in conjunction with non-parity?)

Thanks,

Thomas
 
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It should work unless the motherboard will only take EDO or FPM. If the mobo accepts both, than it should run fine.
 

Crashman

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You want both processors to act the same way, and they probably have independant memory channels. I usually put the FPM in the first bank and the EDO in the second, but out of paranoia. For both processors that would be FPM bank 0 and 3, EDO bank 1 and 4 I believe.

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chipset BIOS will tell you what you can mix. Although you should be able to mix the two. Largest memory in the closest bank. I don't believe you can mix parity with non parity

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