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- From: someday@hardy.u.washington.edu (Scott Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Memory errors
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.163828.25150@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 16:38:28 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov13.163828.25150
- References: <Bxn7pu.AyA@rice.edu>
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- 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!
- >Kevin Skadron | Lightning never strikes twice, unless your
- >skadron@owlnet.rice.edu | computer program is due tomorrow.
- >Rice University | * My opinions are my own, dammit! *
-
- This is *exactly* the location I get, except mine are Trap 0000 and
- happen only (and occasionally) when trying to open this one particular
- ordinary folder. Maybe it's not bad RAM after all?
-
- Scott Johnson
- [ this sig hand crafted with pride in the U.S.A. ]
-