I have a 386 40Mhz MOBO with 8Mb RAM. The board itself is working quite
well apart from the fact that on enabling the Cache Memory in the BIOS
it tells me that the Cache memory is bad on Start up.

A friend of mine told me that the Cache itself could be Dummy Cache. So
I went around looking for Cache Chips from old MOBOs & have got quite a
few. Now, how do I recognize a real Cache Chip from a Dummy one ? Also I
can't get more than 4Mb of the RAM to work at a time. I've tried all
possibe permutations of the SIMMs & all the sticks work. What could be
the problem ?

INIGO

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