Anyone ever notice this. For the 09-00189 board, looking at the settings in the original Gateway manual for 128K cache, it says to use 1 8K X 8 chip in U201 with 4 32K X 8 chips in U202-U205. On the charter.net site, the 09-00183/189 pages say to use 5 32K X 8 chips. The Gateway manual that came with my 486 DX2 66 system seems to have cache settings meant for a 09-00183 board. The 256K cache settings seem to be the same for 00189 and 00183 boards according to the manual as well as the charter pages. Its 128K that the settings seem to be different.
On the original 09-00189 board that came with my system, it had 256K, it came with 9 32K X 8 chips. I had 128K installed on a 00189 board (1 - 8K X 8 in U201 and 4 - 32K X 8 in U202 - U205), and it booted up fine. Took those same chips and put them in a 09-00183 board with correct jumper settings (tried both from the charter page as well as from the manual) and it freezes at the "128K cache installed" line during bootup. If I restart, I get a d on the screen where the BIOS version is displayed and it freezes. When I disable external cache in BIOS, it boots up fine, even with the chips still installed.