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Re: ERROR when I cold boot my computer

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From: Stephen Jeavons
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:00
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Bart Vermeersch <bv@usingit.be> wrote:
>GuyDS@www.dma.be wrote:
>> 
>> When I boot my computer for the first time that day ( =  power on), I
>> get the following error message: "memory test fail".  If I then press
>> the reset button or <ctrl-alt-del> my computer restarts without error
>> messages.
>> When I shutdown my computer (after I've worked for a while) and
>> restart it (power on) within (about) an hour, there is no problem at
>> all.  But when I restart it (power on) after a few hours, I get the
>> error message again.
>> 
>> It seems that the error message only appears when I litteraly "COLD"
>> boot my computer.
>> Do I have a bad simm ?  Or is it something else ?
>
>Staat uw computer in een koud lokaal? Misschien moet hij eerst wat
>opwarmen?
 
i.e. Does your computer live in a cold (unheated) environment ? Perhaps your PC
requires some warming up initially when started from cold ?

Stephen

 
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From: Stephen Jeavons <Jeavons@nortel.co.uk>
Subject: Re: ERROR when I cold boot my computer
Date: 1996/12/10
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