Re: Some odd errors / compatibility questions.

[tmill06@ibm.net (Timothy J. Miller)]

tmill06@ibm.net (Timothy J. Miller) writes:

> 	What am I missing?  Or should I return *both* set of sticks and
> give up?

	Okay-- here's an update:

	I hit the sig11 page I was pointed to and read it.  I tried
disabling the cache to no effect.  I *did* discover when I went to
downclock the CPU that the jumpers were set for a dual-voltage CPU
instead of single-voltage; fixed that, no change.

	I haven't gotten to reclocking the CPU yet.  Instead I ran the
memory tester that was downloadable from the sig11 page.  I found that
any test above 10Mb failed with a segv.

	So I swapped the sticks.  The memory test *still* failed at
11Mb.  Reenabled the cache and it still fails at 11Mb.

	So now I'm running crippled booted with mem=10M, and everything
seems stable.  Right now I'm working on the hypothesis that there's an
addressing problem, but since neither I nor any of my coworkers knows
enough about the board or the Cyrix, we don't know if it's in the CPU or
on the board.

	I'll try to get ahold of a replacement CPU ASAP.  If the test
fails at the same location after that, we'll know it's on the board.

	If *anyone* has alternative theories or otherwise thinks I'm
barking up the wrong tree, *please* let me know.

-- 
Cerebus <tmill06@ibm.net>


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