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Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 2004 10:12 pm**

About a year ago I upgraded my friend's PCChips M571, adding 2 sticks of 64MB PC66 RAM. After a clean install of 98SE, I had two problems:

the Windows splash screen had a bunch of garbage on it after POST and before shutdown.

there was a vertical line to the right of the mouse pointer.

I had no idea what was causing this until recently when I threw some RAM into a completely different computer and had the same exact problem!

Now I'm convinced it's a RAM/BIOS issue.

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this and if there are BIOS settings that deal with it.

Cheers

g

Posted: **Sun Mar 07, 2004 3:24 pm**

Most probably, the memory is just bad. Try a test like GoldMemory http://www.goldmemory.cz.

Posted: **Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:05 am**

or memtest86 http://www.memtest86.com

Posted: **Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:58 pm**

Yep. Had the same problem on the same board. (NO, not mine...)

Binned the bad stick, problem disappeared.

Posted: **Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:40 pm**

edwin wrote:or memtest86 http://www.memtest86.com

or memtest86+ http://www.memtest.org

Posted: **Tue Mar 23, 2004 11:43 am**

thanks for that.

cheers

g

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