c60c-2ia@web-2d.berkeley.edu (Wei-Lun Tsai) (06/19/91)
I have an XT-compatible w/ 640K of RAM on it. Recently I bought a memory ex- pansion card for it which would allow me to add up to 2MB of LIM expanded memory to my XT. It's a full-length card with 8 memory banks. Each bank will accept a group of 9 DRAM chips. So if I had 8 sets of 256Kx9 DRAM's, I would have 2MB on board. But recently I have had strange problems which seems to come from the board. Sometimes if I use programs such as Manifest or Norton SI to check or to per- form speed tests on expanded memory, my computer will completely crash, the screen (Hercules) goes blank, and a message "MEMORY ERROR 2" appears on the screen. If I use Ctrl-Alt-Del (Is that what people call a warm boot) to reboot the machine, computer will crash again and the MEMORY ERROR 2 message will appear again. So I must use reset button (cold boot?) to reboot the computer. Does anyone know why? That problem is starting to get on my nerves! Wei-Lun c60c-2ia@web.berkeley.edu