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- From: lkawecki@novell.com (Lewis Kawecki)
- Subject: Re: Memory errors
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.233330.27411@novell.com>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:33:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.092633.60799@cc.usu.edu> ma@cc.usu.edu writes:
- >In article <Bxn7pu.AyA@rice.edu>, skadron@owlnet.rice.edu (Kevin Skadron) writes:
- >> I have a 386-SX clone with 8 Megs of RAM (1 M SIPPS), and am running
- >> OS/2 2.0. About two weeks ago I started getting Trap 2 errors and they have
- >> been increasing in frequency. The obvious guess would be that I have a
- >> memory chip failing, but I can't interpret the address I get from the Trap 2
- >> message. The Trap 2 message lists the register contents, then something to
- >> this effect:
- >>
- >> ##0160:fff6453f - 000d:a53f
- >> 60000,9084
- >>
- >> I get the same values above almost every time it crashes. Does anyone know
- >> how to interpret this to figure out which SIPP is going bad?
- >>
- >> A second question: I have once received a Trap 8 (with the same
- >> address). What is a Trap 8?
- >>
- >> Thanks!
- >>
- >I don't know about OS/2 2.0. I had a memory problem with a 486 running DOS.
- >It also has 8 megs of RAM. When I ran some large software like Windows, it
- >gave an error message and halted. I called techinician and did some thing like:
- >pull out all 4 simms in bank 1, start the machine as the machine as only 4
- >megs of RAM, no problem. Then put (replace) the rest 4 in bank 0 one each time.
- >with one simm the system halted. So I identified that bad simm and asked the
- >PC company to send me a good one . Now it is ok.
- >Maybe you can try the similar thing.
- >Hope it helps.
- >Ma
- >
-
- This is not a memory error!!!
- I have the same location appearing with trap 000d and 0006 when a boot sometimes
- I had two different types of memory 3 chip and 9 chip simms. I thought this
- was my problem, but I just upgraded to 16 Megs of memory all the same type of
- memory and I am still geting the same error when I boot. For my it only
- happens every forth boot or so. I am sure that this is a problem with the CSD
- since my OS/2 2.0 booted and ran solid without problem. The trap only occures
- during boot. I never have a problem once OS/2 is up.
-
- Hey IBM,
- Do you know about this boot problem with the above location.
-
- SO, WHAT'S UP WITH THIS
-
- -Lewis Kawecki
- lkawecki@novell.com
-