Re: HELP: Himem.sys error

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From: Derek Morton
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00

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In article <31E895FA.7FC6@lawson.its.utas.edu.au> Badlishah Jamil <bjamil@lawson.its.utas.edu.au> writes:
>From: Badlishah Jamil <bjamil@lawson.its.utas.edu.au>
>Subject: HELP: Himem.sys error
>Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 16:38:50 +1000

>Greetings,

>        I have just installed additional 4x1MB SIMMs to fill all the memory
>banks on my PC. However, when I boot the system, reconfigured the cmos
>setup, the himem memory manager was not able to load indicating an error
>when the memory was tested. I removed the new 4x1MB SIMMS and booted the
>system again and it worked fine. Then I swapped it with the new SIMMs
>and it also worked fine. When I put all the SIMMs back on the
>motherboard and boot the system, the same error occurs.

>        Can I assume that there are no error or defects in the SIMMs? If there
>are no physical defects on the SIMMs, what can cause that error that I
>am facing? Any of you good people out there can give me some hint?


I think that assumption is ok
Problem could be bad simm sockets!

>Shah
>bjamil@lawson.appcomp.utas.edu.au

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From: derekm@tbsa.com.au (Derek Morton)
Subject: Re: HELP: Himem.sys error
Date: 1996/07/15
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