Re: Testing Sirius RAM card at 8MB?

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <YI-dndd0tM2AHbPZRVn-uA@comcast.com>,
 Matthew Carpenter <superpsycho@comcast.net> wrote:

> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > I've got an 8MB RAM sirius RAM card installed and I'm beginning to think 
> > that something isn't quite right... My iigs seems to puke on read if I 
> > try to copy larger files or a lot of files at once.  Is there any 
> > software for testing RAM that would work with the Sirius RAM card? The 
> > only RAM test software I have is bit banger and it won't work with cards 
> > capable of 8MB.
> > 
> > -Matthew S. Carpenter
> 
> Ok... now I can't boot GS OS off the hard drive. it keeps flashing this 
> near the end of bootup:
> 
> Detected trashed memory--software bug or (less likely) bad RAM.  Error $

Take out one of the DIMMs and run Bit Banger.  Long ago it found memory 
errors on my AE GS-RAM+ that other memory testing programs didn't.  
(Crosstalk/bank boundary if I remember correctly.)

Greg B.

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