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Offline papa_novemberTopic starter

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Blizzard 1260 memory issues
« on: July 31, 2009, 11:13:08 PM »
I'm working on an A1200T with a Mediator busboard and Blizzard 1260 accelerator. It seems to work perfectly, except I'm getting errors when I run ICD MemTest.

    It came with a 64MB SIMM in the onboard socket and an 8MB SIMM in the SCSI-KIT socket. I've tried a whole bunch of SIMMs and they all seem to have problems - either they are seen as the wrong size or they have errors as well.

    I can't test the machine without the Mediator as that's the only way it gets power. Could the Mediator be causing false alarms or is there something wrong with the accelerator?
 

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Re: Blizzard 1260 memory issues
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2009, 08:12:52 PM »
I tried a couple of other memory testing programs and they aren't reporting any problems. I've been using ICD MemTest because it seems to work on a wide variety of systems(so far), but maybe it's possible it doesn't like 060 machines? It was written before the 060 was available, so that could definitely be a possibility.

It's given a false negative once before on an Oktagon SCSI card, but I guess that isn't an isolated case. Maybe it's seeing non-RAM areas as RAM?