exhist a way to check if some chip of memory (socketed on mainboard) is faulty? system is a socket5 class computer. Something like memtest… tnks
There is a program for checking the cache, maybe if I remember correctly it's called cachechk, they use it to check the fake caches of the 486 (pcchips), it certainly highlights a problem, but I don't think it can tell you which chip has problems.
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Yep. It can show if cache is the issue. After that it's a matter of swapping chips until you find the source of the issue.
With my experience when one chip is faulty, cache is disabled by the BIOS and you get the error message at boot.
But for troubleshooting...
First try to increase the timings of L2 and maybe also L1 cache. Most instabilities occur with too tight timings.
Then you can also disable L2 cache in BIOS. If everything works fine with L2 disabled, then the L2 cache is probably to blame.
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kixs wrote on 2024-01-07, 23:43:With my experience when one chip is faulty, cache is disabled by the BIOS and you get the error message at boot. […]
With my experience when one chip is faulty, cache is disabled by the BIOS and you get the error message at boot.
But for troubleshooting...
First try to increase the timings of L2 and maybe also L1 cache. Most instabilities occur with too tight timings.
Then you can also disable L2 cache in BIOS. If everything works fine with L2 disabled, then the L2 cache is probably to blame.
there is no settings, just "enable" or "disable"
Why do you think cache is the problem? What's happening?
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