> > A friend asked me to upgrade her computer which
> > had 64mb (2x32mb) SDRAM, which were 66mhz. I
> > replaced these with 3 sticks of 128mb but these
> > were 133mhz. On booting up it counted correctly
> > to 384mb but the next screen said "Memory check
> > failed. Press F1 to continue, Press Esc to enter
> > setup".

I had a Compaq machine do this - The memory was fine, but I was forced call
up the firmware utility and let it detect the new memory and save the
configuration.  The configuration change is what the machine is complaining
about, not the memory... maybe.

Eric Wertman

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