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From: wendell@medsys.uucp (Wendell Dingus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Possible A3000 Scram Problem
Keywords: scram 3000 problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.000852.1808@medsys.uucp>
Date: 19 Mar 91 00:08:52 GMT
Organization: Med-Systems, Kingsport, Tennessee
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Is this a ram problem, or what? I recently upgraded my A3000/16 to 6 megs,
but 6 of the 256x4 Scrams were page mode, and I returned them to be replaced
with scram type. I went ahead and installed the other 3 meg while waiting
on the return, and things worked fine. Now I install the final 1 meg, and
the program REBOOT gives a yellow screen, and blinking power light (ram
error). This program reboots back to the Kickstart selection menu, and worked
fine in both 2 and 5 meg configurations. Also, I've been having some 
sporadic gurus that just didn't happen before.. Sometimes quite bad, 3 or 4
crashes in a couple hours! 2.0 is simply more stable than this :-)

Dave, I understand that SetRamsey is totally in how it names the registers,
but nonetheless, I can turn on everything it supports, and the machine still
functions properly.                  ^make that 'totally wrong' above...

Anyway, is one of the new chips bad? Are there any A3000 ram test programs?
As usual, any help will be greatly appreciated...

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Wendell Dingus                            UseNet: ...uunet!medsys!wendell