He needs 30 pin SIMMs. In 1992, the best you could get would have been a hybrid, 4 72 pin and 4 30 pin SIMMs. He says they're all 1 meg, but he didn't say there were two different sizes, so they'd all be the same, and given the vintage of the board, they should all be 30 pin. -----Original Message----- From: zentara <zentara@mindspring.com> To: James (Jim) Hatridge <hatridge@straubing.baynet.de> Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Sunday, March 21, 1999 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] 30 or 72 pins???

"James (Jim) Hatridge" wrote:

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Hi All;

I was about to order 4Mb Ram chips yesterday when the order taker asked

me

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which I wanted 30 or 72 pin chips.....

Well, I don't know. Can anyone tell me how to tell which I need? I have a "OPTI-486WB" motherboard that was made in 1992. It has 8 slots with 1MB chips in each now.

Looking in the manual, one place it refers to the chips as "4MB SIM DRAM", another says "4M x 9 OF SIM" and yet another says "4M x 9,4 pcs". No where does it say anything about pins.

Whoh!!!!!!! 30 pin simms are almost obsolete. 72 pin simms are getting there. The new standard are pc-100 compliant dimms. Look at your motherboard manual, you may need 30 pin, but they should be dirt cheap. 30 pins simms are about 2.5 inches long ; and 72 pin simms are about 4 inches long. Look at the slots on your motherboard.

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