ISTR hearing stories similar to what you describe with the memory modules, but for the life of me I don't remember where... Might have been something my dad experienced when he was installing some random modules, or might have been something I read, I forget.
I thought I'd heard of issues regarding mixing DIMMs and SIMMs back when they started making PCs with both types of socket, but that may have been something else. Sadly, I haven't been following H/W standards very closely- last time I did any system building was about 4 or 5 years ago :P
(as for fitting SIMMs, I often found myself worrying about breaking the damn things)
Are wrestling SIMMs fixed?
I thought I'd heard of issues regarding mixing DIMMs and SIMMs back when they started making PCs with both types of socket, but that may have been something else. Sadly, I haven't been following H/W standards very closely- last time I did any system building was about 4 or 5 years ago :P
(as for fitting SIMMs, I often found myself worrying about breaking the damn things)