Re: PYXIS machine checks w/ 1.5GB RAM

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:48:23AM -0500, Kurt Ludwig wrote:
>
> it's a chipset limitation too...
> 
> you can't stick anything larger than a 256MB DIMM in any one DIMM slot.

I've heard that someone stuck 3GB into a MIATA and it was fine. And
the MIATA internal doc I have even talks about 6GB (!), though I've
not heard of *that* being done. I doubt they'd have mentioned 3 and 6
as possibles if the PYXIS chipset was the limiting factor.

All that really says is that the MIATA SROM code is capable of
handling more than 256MB per DIMM; that may not be applicable to the
SROM code for LX or SX.

However, if one *really* wants to make it happen, the old Digital
Semiconductor EBSDKs had the SROM source code... ;-}

--Jay++

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