First post, by lowlytech
I am trying to nail down a socket 7 pentium build and so far I am having trouble. I have 3 boards and each has a flaw that's a dealbreaker. Out of the 3, I am back to the Asus vx97 board that fails memory tests only when L2 cache is enabled. If i run cachechk it will show 512k working cache and has no issues during execution when L2 is enabled, but goldmemory and microsoft memory diagnostic have tons of failures. The system runs great with L2 disabled. Any ideas on what to try to fix this or what causes this? Is it indeed defective cache chips? I have swapped power supplies, tried 5 or 6 different pairs of memory, changed the refresh values in CMOS, swapped processors to change the MHz host from 50 to 60, tried flashing BIOS to latest version I could find, all with the same results. I even pulled 4 capacitors by the cache memory area suspecting them to be out of value and they were in spec, but changed out nonetheless.
Anything I am missing on the troubleshooting side of things?
Thanks...