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- From: lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison)
- Subject: Re: Mix of 3-chip and 9-chip simms with OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.180127.0278550@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
- References: <BzDMF3.4F9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <8163@lib.tmc.edu> <BzE1Kz.A8F@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:01:27 GMT
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- In article <BzE1Kz.A8F@news.cso.uiuc.edu> 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
- >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.
- >
- Sorry, but you are making the assumption that those "Heavy Duty Diagnostics"
- are worth the disk they come on. Unfortunately, that is quite often NOT the
- case. Memory problems have persisted in many systems certified by such
- programs as QA, Checkit and their clones, only to be resolved by REPLACING
- the memory. This has happened under DOS, Windows, Unix as well as OS/2.
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- The problem is that the checking programs (even the heavy duty ones) arn't
- all that rigerous.
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