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- From: John Rumm <john@intrnode.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: VXL RAM-32 problems...
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 21:09:04 GMT
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- John Darrell Kesling (jkesling@shell.portal.com) wrote:
- : Arne Seime (arnes@bgnett.no) wrote:
- :
- : >>I have the 40mHz version of Microbotics' VXL-30 (68030) accelerator
- : >>installed and working in my A2000, but have been having consistent
- : >>problems with the 8-meg RAM-32 (32-bit RAM) card that I bought with it.
- :
- : >>My VXL-30 is the 68030EC (no MMU), and it seems to work fine without the
- : >>extra memory.
- :
- : >>Using the 32-bit RAM results in frequent guru errors and system
- : >>hang-ups. Running memory diagnostic software generally results in system
- : >>crashes! (Aren't those programs designed to survive normal memory
- : >>errors? That is, after all, the point of a memory diagnostic!)
- :
- : My son has the exact same setup and problem you describe. We were
- : able to get the diagnostics to fail (report errors and not guru) by
- : addressing the 32 bit memory high. That way the test isn't actually
- : executing from the suspect memory.
- :
- : We have not been able to fix problem though. We swapped the memory
- : chips around on the board expecting a different error but the failures
- : were always the same. I suspect that his problem is one of the driver
- : ICs and not a bad memory chip. Your luck may be better.
-
- What speed are the RAM chips? and What setting have you got the memory
- speed jumper set to?
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