Re: Mersenne: Error: Illegal Sumout

[John R Pierce]

>>>[...] "ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT" [...] Any suggestions?
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>>It happened to me.  Turned out to be bad tag RAM.
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>Luke, could you explain what "tag RAM" is please?
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>Help in identifying same would be nice too, if possible.


its the part of the cache that holds the address bits.  On pentium pro and
pentium-II systems, its in the CPU module.  On *some* plain pentium chipsets,
its 1 or two discrete static ram (SRAM) chips, but on other P5 chipsets, its
integrated into the memory controller chip.

-jrp