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- From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.wanted
- Subject: Re: Any source of 1 Meg SIMM's for SUN 3/60's?
- Message-ID: <72255@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:27:47 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: usa
- References: <1992Dec21.030449.23292@cis.uab.edu> <72145@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <111956@siemens.siemens.com> aad@siemens.com. (Anthony Datri) writes
- :
-
- | >AND set the EEPROM memory-test limits so all your memory is TESTED upon boot
- ;
- | >many forget to do this which results in (possibly) bad memory not being
- | >found until after the system is running SunOS.
- |
- | In my experience, the power-up diags will almost *never* detect bad memory.
-
- But the diags WILL detect an improperly-seated SIMM module, which is the extent
- of problems I've ever found with SIMMs.
-
- One of the funniest (depending on point of view :-) problems with SIMMs I've
- seen happened to a colleague who pushed his SIMMs in without checking if the
- sockets were clean ... so he inadvertently squished a spider ("bug" :-) into
- the socket. Yucky-poo.
-
- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
-