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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