Re: [Thinkpad] Re: 128 Mb RAM in 560x, all the gory details

Matt and the rest of the list:

Weird....The error you encountered directly points to a memory fault.
It would be interesting to find out that the memory bus is interfering
with another bus when you cross the 64MB barrier. This would be very
strange, as I can install over 200MB in a 600E, but caching does not
work (design fault).

James Mckenzie

Matt wrote:

>I think these sticks were made for some Thinkpads, though not necessarily
>ours.
>
>They are EDO, and 128Mb, but something somehow is not quite right. Will be
>interesting to see if the replacements work any better.
>
>Matt
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew in Ann Arbor" <andrewaa@comcast.net>
>To: "thinkpad" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:15 PM
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Re: 128 Mb RAM in 560x, all the gory details
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>>James McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Andrew:
>>>
>>>Get a copy of memtest and test the memory module. You may have a
>>>defective module or you may only need to upgrade the BIOS to allow it to
>>>use all available memeory.
>>>
>>>
>>James
>>I think I did that?
>>I don't know if this is a current version and I have heard disparaging
>>remarks about the program but I had the floppy...
>>I was hoping a BIOS upgrade would do the trick (and I needed to do it
>>anyway) but it came up with the same errors.
>>
>> >>
>> >> I booted from a floppy and ran Memtest-86 v1.4a and
>> >> let it run all day.
>> >> It completed 33 passes with no errors.
>> >>
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>>> Memtest86 does come in a bootable floppy
>>>format that could be written to a CDROM image.
>>>
>>>
>>Floppy drive here, one of the chores I need to do before I get that new
>>hard drive for the W2K 560x is to find or make a boot floppy that will
>>load the external PCMCIA drivers so I can install the OS.
>>Then I need to remember where I put the external CD drive.
>>
>>--
>>Andrew in Ann Arbor
>>technology is the answer, what was the question?
>>
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