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- From: ychung@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung)
- Subject: Re: What good are Bios RAM tests ?
- Message-ID: <C18uoH.7GA@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1993Jan15.111338.11134@dmu.ac.uk> <1jagkpINNarn@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1993Jan21.112136.2125@dmu.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:12:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.112136.2125@dmu.ac.uk> cph@dmu.ac.uk (Chris Hand) writes:
- >
- >People have been talking about the BIOS making a difference to the refresh,
- >but I would have thought it's the CHIPSET we should be looking at? After
- >all that's what controls the refresh, caching etc.
- >
- Well, I don't have the manuals with me to give any specifics about my
- machine, but I think the 3-chip parity problem is caused by the BIOS
- incompatibility.
-
- This is what happened to me.
-
- I had 4Meg of 9-chip simms and bought 4 more 3-chip simms. I installed it
- with ease and boot up. The computer would tick for 4Megs then hangup.
- CMOS chipset error! So, I turned off the above 1 meg memory check off and
- no problem. I then proceded to windows and decided to use all 8megs of
- memory. So I open up a BIG TGA file. Parity error in the middle of loading.
- So I put the 3-chip simms on the first bank (making them the first 4 megs).
- Now, CMOS error occurs as soon as it starts memory test. So I turn parity
- check off in my BIOS setup. Now, it runs with no problem. Windows gave me
- no trouble. Of course, when I installed OS/2 2.0, I stated getting that
- parity error again.
- But, my point is that since I was able to fix the problem, at least temporarily,
- I believe that it's the BIOS that causes 3-chip simm incompatibility.
-
- AMI Feb/91 (I think).
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