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- From: nt@sss.co.uk (Niall Teasdale)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Cyberstorm with a funny problem!
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:23:27 GMT
- Organization: 3-S (Software) Ltd
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- John Rumm <john@intrnode.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >The system suffers from a memory corruption fault. This only occurs however
- >when the 060 Superscaler option is turned on. (Data cache also seems to
- >make the system more unstable)
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- >The memory range affected by this fault is 08200000H to 08220000H. Using the
- >memory test programs shown below; we have found that in Superscaler mode,
- >data in this range will intermittently read as 0. This as you would expect,
- >shows up as a memory test failure and also causes the machine to crash
- >whenever a program is loaded into this memory area. Turning off superscaler
- >removes the problem (but greatly reduces the performance of the system)
- >
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- This sounds like the same problem I had. The CPU card needed replacing. So
- if you can't fix it any other way, send it back.
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- Niall.
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- Niall Teasdale - nt@sss.co.uk or niall@hedgehog.demon.co.uk
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