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To: wily who wrote (34061)	11/6/1999 8:35:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

whether even a 2-RIMM solution would work There was circumstantial evidence the first week motherboards were delivered. Put three memory chips in and it wouldn't boot. Put 1 or 2 and it would boot. All first delivery motherboards have issues, and with new memory technology there was a learning curve. Many things were tried and it got to the point where 3 RIMMS would work some of the time, but if you swapped the position of the RIMMs in the sockets it wouldn't work. Working with 2 or less RIMMS was pretty constant and since there was lots of work to do that is how the motherboards were configured for all developers (drivers, software certification etc) except those studying the actual hardware. I don't know how the issue was resolved, there was a lot of finger pointing that one of 1)RIMMs 2)Trace Layout 3) 820 chipset must be out of spec, but either they got weary of waiting or someone showed that worst case specs in 1,2 &3 caused a data collision (Meaning I don't know if 3 slots will be offered eventually). All I know is that after what seemed like forever the word went out to prepare for a 2 slot solution. TP