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From: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: (Two) Test Drive II, GS self test
Keywords: Test Drive, Game, Self Test
Message-ID: <12414@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 8 Sep 89 03:55:54 GMT
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In article <2939@puff.cs.wisc.edu> blochowi@rt18.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
[talking about self test on gs]
>	I would imagine that all the RAM in the system gets tested. Claris
>also has a memory test program that, I think, comes with AppleWorks GS. I
>would imagine it's a bit more exhaustive than the builtin test (otherwise
>it'd be pretty useless, eh?).

The self test doesn't seem to check for bad RAM.  I thought it did,
but I accidently set the jumpers on my Apple card incorrectly while installing
more RAM, so it thought there was 1.0 MB total, and it gave a 'System Good'
message, while I had only 768K total.  I then set the jumpers correctly
and took out one or two chips, adn it still tested out ok.  

One of the dealers here said that he has seen quite a few gs's that passed
the built-intest, but failed his disk-based diagnostics.

>	Jason


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Henry Throop
Internet: throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu