Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!bennett From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Spotted Workspace ? Why? (and BlastApp??) Keywords: memory errors, non-parity memory, spotted display Message-ID: <1991Apr6.043551.29580@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 6 Apr 91 04:35:51 GMT References: <5596@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1991Apr3.230504.27819@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Apr5.075135.23325@cs.ubc.ca> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 38 In article <1991Apr5.075135.23325@cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) writes: >In article <1991Apr3.230504.27819@mp.cs.niu.edu> bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes: >>In article <5596@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> simsong@daily-bugle.media.mit.edu (Simson L. Garfinkel) writes: >>>Sounds like you have memory problems. >> >> And further, if you get no error messages when it happens, I'd lay >>some cash down that you have non-parity memory. And if that is indeed >> [text deleted --SJB] > >If software still runs, it sounds to me like the VRAM is shot. >After all, it is the screen that's being affected. But I'm no >expert, only guessing like everyone else. Good point. I wasn't thinking. So, the VRAM is non-parity crap, too, huh? What a bummer. Is the VRAM on a 68040 board like that, too? I hope not because I just bought the upgrade kit a week ago (it's not installed yet) and it will definitely ruin my day to discover that I'm still going to have a toy computer instead of a real, production one. > >--- > [more deleted --SJB] > >Later dudes! >...Stuart Wot's... uh the deal? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG Systems Programming Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "Well, I don't know, but I've been told, in the heat of the sun * * a man died of cold..." Oakland, 19 Feb. 1991, first time since * * 25 Sept. 1970!!! Yippee!!!! Wondering what's NeXT... :-) * **********************************************************************