Re: geos w/40MB ram

William Tanksley (wtanksle@owl.csusm.edu)
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 20:01:06 -0500

>Hiya guys,

Hi!

>I don't think this is really the right place for this question, but, I just
>popped 32 megs of ram into my computer to bring it up to 40, and, well,
>Ensemble crashes after drawing the background. It works when run from
>Windows. After telling Smartdrv to make an 8 meg disk cache, it worked. Is
>there any other way I can get it to work?

Very strong symptoms of bad memory or motherboard there. I've never heard
of Geos detecting it -- usually the way to detect it is to run 6 or 7 gcc
compiles (that's compiles OF gcc using gcc) at the same time.

Most test programs won't detect errors like that for a LONG time (although
if even Geos sets it off it might be really bad), but you should probably
try. Of course, you could also install Linux and attempt the
above-mentioned test :). Just start gcc compiles until you get some
swapping (use one of the tools to make sure).

For a fix, check that all your connections are tight. Then trade the memory
in. After that it's most likely the motherboard, but I don't know enough...
I always plug the connections in backwards myself (EVERY SINGLE TIME, you
hear? Hard drives, floppy drives, even the motherboard power supply!).

>| Edward Di Geronimo Jr. edwdig@bergen.org |

-Billy

Using Geos with 48M