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July 29, 2003 at 10:11 PM
rearadmiral

Memory failure

by rearadmiral . Updated 22 years, 11 months ago

Hi, I’ve a Dell laptop that has been giving the following message intermittently for a while now: “memory address line failure at 030DC6A4, read F2F0F2F2 expecting F2F2F2F2. Decreasing memory”. The machine was built with a 64 Meg memory. I thought it might be the 256 Meg memory I installed about a year ago in the 2nd bay but I’ve tried removing it & rebooting but the same message appears. Memory is cut to 48 Meg from 64 (or 320 when the extra memory’s installed). I’ve not had this problem for the last three months until last week I installed a software update via CD & it’s raised it’s ugly head again, even if the new software is not initiated. As you may guess, the paging gets very ugly after a few hours use as the hard drive get hammered.Any ideas gratefully received.

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