Emergency help request!

[uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)]

Ack!  The only reason I'm able to run ProTERM right now is because I set
my RAM disk to leave only about 200K of free RAM.

I have a GS-RAM Plus card with 4 Mb on it.  When I run the GS-RAM test
program, I'm told that two chips are bad (the fifth chip from the right in
the first and third banks -- in other words, they are in the same column
on the board, with a good one in between).

I swapped all kinds of chips all over the place, and no matter what chips
are in these particular locations, they are reported as bad.  So the
problem isn't that I have bad chips, it's that for some reason the board
doesn't recognize the validity of the chips in those two sockets.

What can I do?  I have important work to get done, and can't do it without
this memory.  Any suggestions on what might be wrong?

I went through reseating chips that were poorly aligned, I pushed every
socketed chip in my system into its socket, made sure all cables and
boards are seated tightly.  I ran the TWGS self-test repeatedly with no
errors.  So the problem is the RAM card itself.

The annoying thing is that it was fine when I shut the machine off last
night.  Today, it appears that there is at least one memory location (in
bank 2) which has a bit that goes clear after only a few moments (I
actually set the value of this byte, then read it, and bit 6 is clear).

Help!

- Eric S.

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