First post, by athlon-power
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I guess this isn't all sunshine and roses. When starting MS-DOS 6.22, HIMEM.SYS will give an error message, which reads as such:
Himem.sys has detected unreliable xms memory at address 0010000Ah.
I did this with both of my RAM sticks and the error still appears. When I disable Level 2 Cache in BIOS, this error will not appear with either my 4MB or 8MB memory sticks.
I removed the cache chips from the sockets, blew out the sockets with canned air, and re-installed the cache, and the error has not subsided. I do not know how to identify which chip is damaged in this case. Once I can identify the chip, I will be forced to reduce system cache down to 128KB without the damaged chip. I have some other 20ns L2 cache, but it is not the same kind that is installed with my 9-chip configuration, which likely means that I will be unable to simply "swap out," with the other memory chips.
Where am I?