William Patton wrote:

> Date: December 23, 1998
> From: William Patton
> Subject: Memory test Failed
>
> Hello Folks: I have a older system: Pentium 133, 32mgs Ram, HX chipset.  The
> board bios is dated May, 1996.  Recently on most boots (but not all) I get
> the error message "memory test failed":push F1 to continue or Del to enter
> setup.  I push F1 and the system always continue to boot all the way up into
> Win95a.  Although the memory does count up properly, I swapped out the two
> 16mg SIMM's for two spare 8 mg SIMM's, but the problem still continues.  On
> most startups but not all I get the error message, but I can continue with
> the boot up.  Can someone suggest what all items would cause this if itis
> not a SIMM problem?  Thank You, William Patton
>

William,

Check your power supply. Sometimes this is cause of erratic memory behavior.

Steve Bourgeois

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