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Re: Memory Problems - when EMM386 loaded

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From: Tim Stannard
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <320536584wnr@naismith.demon.co.uk>, John Naismith
<John@naismith.demon.co.uk> writes
>Seen this at work - one turned out to be a motherboard fault on the DMA channel, 
>and the other was a faulty SIMM. However, in both cases an EMM386 error was 
>actually reported.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>
Thanks, John.

I should have mentioned that I have replaced the (single) 8Mb SIMM with
a known working 4Mb SIMM and still get the same symptoms. 

Anyone know of a test I can perform to check the DMA channels ?
-- 
Tim Stannard
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