Hi All,--------------------------
I think I have tracked down my problems. I have TechTools pro and I have run that and when I open the ram window I see some very strange things
in the slots. I would run the ram check and everything would check out fine. But in the window its self I had two ram chips that instead of
coming up with 128mb would come up with a negative number. Then there is one chip that came up with 1024mb. Then one slot (B6) kept coming up
with 1024mb even though there was nothing in the slot. I think I have finally got things fixed as I pulled 3 128mb chips and at this point when
I go into the ram window all seem to show up just fine.
I believe I fried a motherboard in a power tower pro I had becasue of bad memory and I don't want to do it to this machine. It is hard to lose
that much memory but I would rather do that than lose my machine.
Does anyone know of where I might get a good ram checker program that would tell me for sure what ram was good and what was bad?
Here is what I do, which may or may not be practical for you. I have a spare 9600/200 that I use for special purposes such RAM testing. So, starting with a computer I know has no problems, I put just one RAM stick in at a time, start up, use Tech Tool Pro's RAM test (All but the Major March, which will take until a year from March to finish). This back in the days when a bunch of cheap RAM was on the market, much of it was bad, and I had a half dozen 9600's to upgrade.
I found that sometimes the computer would not start with just one (BAD) RAM stick in. That was the signal to toss the RAM. Other times Tech Tool Pro would give me RAM errors and that was another signal to toss.
I guess the most practical advice, if you only have one computer, would be to pull all the RAM except one, and test the modules one at a time.
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