Hi guys,
I have been silent lurker for a while, but decided to create account to ask dreamblaster/Serda for SimmConn universal. I received it few days ago and have been testing loads of simms with it. Here is my initial report:
I have AWE64 Gold (CT4390) and AWE64 Value (CT4520).
Things seems to go very weird. With AWE64 Gold practically every 32MB simm I have seems to be recognised correctly and allows loading sf2 banks, but Diagnose fails on every one of them (tells about failure when progressbar finishes). Also many of instruments sound broken (like Clavinet) and Doom sounds horrible because of those broken instruments. One 16MB simm works fine and 32MB simms work when I jumper them as 16MB (so they show as 16MB).
I have tried 8 different kind of 32MB simms so far. One of them has chips that were already marked as working (HY5117404B), but did not work for me.
On Value card every single simm shows as 2MB simm for Diagnose and AWE Control (and seems to work as such when I load 2MB sf2).
Few of simms are 70ns (so possibly too slow), but most are 60ns which should be fast enough. Almost all of them has 16 chips. Chip brands varies a lot (Panasonic, Huyndai, NEC, Samsung, Nanya and Toshiba).
I even tested ECC simm, but interestingly that showed as 2 MB simm for Gold (maybe it used ECC chips as memory or something).
I noticed that Bloodycactus has jumper connected wrong in his photo (one jumper connected pins 3 of both lines), but still he got it working so I guess with correct 32MB simm it does not matter much (note that at least on my unit pins 3 are connected even without jumper so it is not dangerous to have jumper there).
Have you all guys tested simms with diagnose too (at least Bloodycactus mentioned that he did)?
So either I am VERY unlucky with all my simms or my unit is not working as well as some others. But having this weird 2MB limit with Value card makes me wonder if this simmconn is somewhat faulty.