From: Mario Genzone
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Yes I did get the two 32meg sticks of memory from ebay seller and both are
matched pair edo non parity. which the m/b can take according to Fic's
manual.  The POST screen states that it has EDO ram in bank 0 , reports
65xxxK OK
but if I set the BIOS HALT to " ALL ERRORS" the boot up post screen says "
Memory Fail error "  if I change the bios to halt on "NO ERRORS" it will go
to the w98 startup, almost as if it where going to boot ok, but the goe's to
the safe mode screen #3 and will not boot in that mode either, sometimes it
will get a bit further and get to my background screen for a sec, but then a
blue screen , I guess they call of death. and round and round it go's.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rode" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] memory test fail


> A bad SIMM is a good bet. EDO is installed in pairs so one of them may be
> good. Can you swap out the SIMMS one at a time? This is the only way you
> will be sure.
>
> Where did you get these. If you got them from Ebay then make sure you
> bought EDO = Extended Data Output and not FPM = Fast Page Mode. On one
> occasion I purchased 4 16 meg EDO SIMMS. I was sent two EDO and two
> FPM.  On another occasion I purchased 32 megs of FPM and received two 16
> meg EDO.
> The easy way to tell is that the SIMMS are often identified at post.
> Although if that is the only RAM you have in there it wouldn't make any
> difference unless you had one of each.
>
> Rode
> The NOSPIN Group
>
> >I purchased and installed two matched 32 mb edo 72 pin memory sticks.
> >When my system tries to boot it indeed states 65534k OK
> >THEN under that is states " Memory test fail "
> >if I disable the HALT On ALL ERRORS to NO ERRORS it will go to the Win 98
> >screen, then to the Microsoft Scandisk screen, because win was not shut
> >down properly, once it finishes the scan drive for errors it then goes to
> >a black screen and sits there for approx 1 min. then automatically goes
to
> >the Microsoft Windows 98 startup Menu, with #3 hi lighted, stating win
did
> >not finish loading on the previous attempt choose safe mode to start win
> >with min set of drivers. selecting #3 safe mode I get one beep then
> >another screen with #3 hi lighted and a error: HIMEM.sys has detected
> >unreliable XMS memory at address xxxxxx XMS driver not installed.
> >
> >IS this a bad memory module ???
>
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