Re: [Sheflug] Compaq SIMMs wanted

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lineone.net>]

It's the gold bit you need worry about......gold/tin is a noise-generating
junction (dissimilar metals, thermocouple effects etc, etc) and is a poor
choice whatever the machine. Gold on gold is what you need.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guennadi Liakhovetski" <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>
To: "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: 12 August 2001 14:29
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Compaq SIMMs wanted


> Not that _I_ was a big fan of Compaq parts, but, apparently, my Deskpro XL
> 5133 is... It's a P133 machine with 16M onboard RAM, and 4 more 72-pin
> slots with _gold_ contacts. So, what's really needed is FP RAM with
> gold-plated contacts 70ns, parity... Of 4 pairs of RAM it only accepted 1,
> all the rest it rejects with 'failed noise test' error message...
>
> Thanks
> Guennadi


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