Thanks David, what I wanted to know was whether it was usual for the memory
test to run thrice...could you tell me what are the three tests?

Regards,
Mandar Naik

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gillett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Memory errors?


> 1.  The wording is not very obvious, but when you "disable the Quick Power
> ON Self Test", that instructs the BIOS to perform the full/slow power-on
> self-test.
>   The quick power-on self-test will run the memory counter from 0 to the
> amount of memory present, ONCE, and will not even really test the memory
as
> it goes.  The full/slow test runs the counter from 0 to total about three
> times, once for each of the different kinds of tests it performs.
>   A common recommendation is to enable the quick test, and allow software
> that is part of the OS to test the memory instead.  For Windows 95/98/ME,
> HIMEM.SYS is the usual tool for this, launched from CONFIG.SYS.
>
> 2.  If you really have 128MB of working memory installed, the counters
> should go up to 131036K.  If they're stopping at 76MB, but not reporting a
> memory error, then it sounds like not all of your installed memory is
being
> recognized by the motherboard.  This might be an additional problem.
>
> David Gillett
>
>

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