Re: What good are Bios RAM tests ?

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From: Dennis Marer
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:48

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In article <4701.01.93@janhh.hanse.de> jan@janhh.hanse.de (Jan Willamowius) writes:
>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 ?

Howdy -

	Be careful!  I just bought a system with AMI BIOS, and when I first
booted it up it appeared as if it scanned all memory.  When inspecting the
BIOS setup, the extended memory check was DISABLED.  It still flipped through
all 4M of memory, even though it wasn't performing a check!  Check your
BIOS setup to see if its really verifying the memory.

				Dennis
				dmarer@td2cad.intel.com

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