Re: Tested the expansion menory...

From: Christopher A Bongaarts (bong0004_at_tc.umn.edu)
Date: 2001-10-15 19:27:28

As Spiro Trikaliotis once put it so eloquently:

> > DG> ...and found errors in the Low Address Bus test only. With some
> > DG> memory blocks, the 5 if I remember correctly, MagerValp's program
> > DG> says that there is an illegal quantity in line 120. What can be
> > DG> the problem? Bad memory?
> 
> > If you get an illegal quantity error there's a bug in the program.
> 
> Not necessarily. If the memory if not ok, it might give you any symptoms it
> wants... Even a illegal quantity error is possible (for example, if one bit
> changes from 1 to 0 or vice versa or if some expansion chip goes on the data
> line when it should not, making a bit appear flipped, too).

Not to mention what would happen if the memory problems 

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