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- From: th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu (Todd Lee Henderson)
- Subject: Re: Mix of 3-chip and 9-chip simms with OS/2
- References: <BzCAMs.Knn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec16.163047.6231@wam.umd.edu> <BzDMF3.4F9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <8163@lib.tmc.edu> <BzE1Kz.A8F@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:00:08 GMT
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- nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
-
- >jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
-
- >>Humor us. Try replacing your RAM with a set from a different system,
- >>preferably one known to run OS/2 with no problems.
-
- >>Al is not the only one who has seen TRAP 0002s be memory problems. That goes
- >>for everyone here, including IBM. OS/2 is known to be a torture test for
- >>memory. Other programs, including what were thought to be heavy-duty
- ^^^^^^^
- >>diagnostics, have been known to run properly on systems where OS/2 had TRAP
- >>0002s which were cured by replacing RAM.
-
- >Well, if you first say that the RAM is fine even for heavy duty diagnostics,
- >but not for OS/2, then say the problem is with RAM, there is ome kind of
- >contradiction. It is not like most RAM out there is "mortal" RAM, and there
-
- I don't see the contradiction if you go with the assumption that even the
- heavy duty diagnostics can't test all parts of the memory completely, which
- is the basic premise of what the previous poster was trying to point out.
-
- I'm no hardware guy, but I would be very critical of any 'heavy duty memory'
- tester that said it tested all possible problems/parts/whatever there is to
- memory.
-
- Do the memory testers even run long enough to go in and scope out every bit
- of 20 Meg of memory????
-
- Todd
-
-
- >is some very privileged, select few RAM chips that are the ultimate in RAM
- >chips. All RAM that is in perfect condition are pretty much the same, and getting
- >RAM that happens to "work" with OS/2 is pure luck.
-
- >Is OS/2 this picky with all hardware, making it a metter of pure luck?
- >(I know I already got unlucky with my modem).
-
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