Re, I will annoy again,but did you remember that the hardware reset switch
next to the battery when changeing ram sticks or PCI cards ?


> Ryan Coleman wrote:
> 
>>> I have a B&W and today installed a new 256mb RAM stick from OWC. The
>>> computer, runnin OS922, immediately became unstable. I ran the GaugePro ram
>>> test and it detected errors withing 30 passes, then froze.
>>> I removed the 3 older RAM sticks, and now the instability seems to be gone.
>>> The old RAM was PC100 and the new one is PC133.
>>> Could the problem be incompatibility of the different types of RAM, rather
>>> than defective RAM?
>> 
>> Yes. The 133 RAM may not be able to clock down to 100. IIRC the B/W
>> could handle 133... I may be wrong there though.
> 
> The rule is that you can use any ram that is rated as fast as your system bus
> or faster.  I install PC-133 Ram in B & W's all day long.  Never a problem.  I
> mix Ram in systems al the time.  You can even install PC-66, PC-100 and PC-133
> in a beige G3 all at the same time.  It is more likely that you have some bad
> ram.
>


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