On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 02:38:51PM -0600, Timothy J. Miller wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Miller) writes: > > So I swapped the sticks. The memory test *still* failed at > > 11Mb. Reenabled the cache and it still fails at 11Mb. > > *sigh* Failed at *17Mb*. Succeeded at *16Mb*. I *will* remember > to calculate in HEX, I *will* remember to calculate in HEX, I *will* > remember to calculate in HEX... > > This now points me toward a bad socket. All the pins look good, > but that's not likely to mean anything anyway. Memory failures at SIMM > boundaries make me suspicious...
As I understand it, Pentium-class systems need 64-bit wide RAM; if you're using SIMMs, the 72-pin ones are only 32-bits wide, which is why you need them in pairs. Hence, you would not expect it to be an error at a certain address, because both SIMMs are used equally, effectively interleaved. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia & Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3 9894 4788 Fax: +61 3 9894 3362 USA Toll Free: 1-888-667-7839 Internet: http://www.rising.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
