ZipTest on Aminet

[madgrizzle]

I've been having what I suspect are memory issues and ran through a bunch of memtest programs with nothing found.  I found what appears to be a fairly new program called ziptest on aminet and it tests all the zip ram on an A3000.  The date is listed as 12-07-17.  I tried it out and it reported back that there was an issue with U875 (Cell 3-1).  I disassembled the amiga and looked at the RAM and sure enough, U875 was a little higher than all the others and pulled out fairly easily.  I noticed one pin was bent wrong, straightened it out and reinstalled it.  Ran ziptest again and everything shows good.  So, this, imo, is an awesome program!

http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/ZIPTest

[madgrizzle]

I'm very happy I found it.  Pointed me right to the exact ram chip that was the problem.  As you likely know, its a royal pita to troubleshoot zip ram (tightly packed, hard to insert without bending pins, etc.)  This eliminated all the guess work.  I emailed my thanks to the developer listed on the webpage.

Yesterday I had thought about giving up on the A3000 and going back to the A2000, but now its running really well..