chuck goolsbee (chuck@rackhenge.net)
Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:47:53 -0800
>Hi Guys. I need to add more RAM to my ANSs but I'm confused. I know that I
>need 168-pin DIMMs but do I need to buy parity? Parity RAM seems to be very
>expensive, especially the ANS-certified RAM that Apple used to sell. Any
>experiences/ideas?
In my experience you can use non-parity RAM, but it is risky. Apple
intended you to use Parity RAM and I have never had any problems using it.
A friend of mine had trouble booting with Non-Parity RAM in certain slots
but not others. (go figure) Here is his quote:
>Guess: Have one Apple Brand 32MB parity DIMM in slot 1. Have two 64MB
>non-parity DIMMs in slots 2 and 3. Maybe the BOS build didn't like that,
>although AIX doesn't seem to mind. Manual sez the box likes to interleave in
>pairs, so I'm going to move the 32MB stick unpaired up to slot 3, etc. and
>forget about it.
>
>Apple Support signs off on that.
I have never gotten my ANS's to boot with anything but parity RAM myself.
But it will work. Fiddle with the pairing in the slots like he did and see
what happens.
-chuck goolsbee
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