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From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L)
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Subject: Re: Amount of chip memory is different each time I boot, what's the deal?
Message-ID: <1991May28.073221.8614@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 28 May 91 07:32:21 GMT
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In article <21950@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>In article <1991May26.064123.18564@news.iastate.edu> skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) writes:
>>Hello folks.  My A3000 is exhibiting a phenomenon that seems strange to me.
>>I recently had 4Megs of memory added.  The origional 1Meg of memory is now
>>in chip ram, bringing the total chip ram to 2Megs.  Here's the problem,
>>each time I boot the machine I get a different amount of chip ram available.
>>Usually it's about 900K, which is what I had before the upgrade.  Sometimes
>>I get 1.1, 1.4, and as much as 1.9Megs of chip ram available. 
>
>	My first suspicion (as a software guy) would be a bad memory chip
>(one that's marginal, so it fails the chip-ram existence test at different
>places).  It also could be making intermittent contact, perhaps (less likely).
>
>-- 
>Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
>{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
>Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
>"No matter where you go, there you are."  - Buckaroo Banzai


     Dandy.  :-(  How does one go about testing this?  Are there programs to
test this or is this enough of a hardware thing that I should take it back
to my dealer to test?

					--George

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