Installing Additional Memory (Ram) - Gateway 386/33 User Manual

5-6 Gateway 2000 386/33 Computer System User's Guide
Installing additional memory (RAM)
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Figure 5-4. 1MB x 9 SIMM.
There are a lot of good reasons why you should consider
installing additional memory in your computer system.
Many operating systems, graphics environments, and
software applications run faster and more efficiently
when large amounts of RAM (16+MB) are available. If
you havea lot of RAM, you can create a large disk cache
to speed up disk access, which in turn makes your
system run much faster.
Your computer's system board holds between 1 and
32MB of RAM, using four standard 70 ns 30-pin SIMM
memory modules like the one in Figure 5-4. Table 5-5
shows the possible memory configurations and switch
(SW1) settings for each configuration.
Two banks of SIMM sockets are available on the system
board. Each bank contains four sockets. If you use a bank
at all, it must be filled.
You can use 256KB x 9, 1MB x 9, or 4MB x 9 SIMMs, but
do not mix different capacity SIMMs in the same bank.
(In other words, don't put 256KB x 9 and 1MB x 9 SIMMs
in the same bank.) Also, don't mix SIMMs rated for
different speeds on the same system board. Doing socan
result in subtle and bizarre problems that are difficult to
troubleshoot. We recommend that you use 70 ns SIMMs
in this system.