-=> TOM WALKER wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 -> See the H.P. is spec'ed for PC66 and the new DIMMs being
 -> PC100 I've reservations about if the refresh rate from this
 -> motherboard is sufficient to maintain valid data in the
 -> PC100 DIMMs until the next refresh cycle comes around.
 -> I've seen warnings to this effect on my web researches
 -> on this matter and Compaq and Hewlett Packard's picky nature
 -> in accepting just any old DIMM.

 TW>  That is Right. Both HP and Compaq have very tight specfications for
 TW> their Memory. I had some plain Vanalla 32 and 64 Meg Simms and only
 TW> half of them would work in a couple of HP's I set up. And I'll bet the
 TW> ones that did may be on the edge of Not working.

My supplier sent along three extra DIMMs when I ran into the difficulty
with the first pair.

The pair I've got in there now seems to be working fine :-)
I've got to drop the three I'm not using in the mail in the next
day or so.

I've now little doubt this was the nature of the problem with
the first pair rebooting endlessly.

I even switched on the primitive memory checker in config.sys
so I can watch the 256 Meg tick by with satisfaction.

Running scandisk the last two days now no data corruption is
apparent so it looks like these two sticks have just the extra
margin to work in these pickier machines :-)

I thought I'd never recover the hard drive but Charles A.
passed along some advise that I just repeat a procedure
I'd already done a number of times and I got it back.
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