What good are Bios RAM tests ?

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From: Jan Willamowius
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:53

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I just found out, that I have a couple of RAM errors. That in it self
is bad enough, but why doesn' the AMI Bios RAM test tell me about it ?
It runs on every cold boot thru all of my 8 MB and doesn't say thing.

Does anybody have an idea what that test is good for ?

- Jan


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Jan Willamowius, Nienredder 6, 2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
E-Mail: jan@janhh.hanse.de

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