At 10:35 PM -0400 5/20/00, Sandy Papp wrote:
>For some time now, all of a sudden, my little PB2400 (80 MB Newertech RAM,
>Newertech G3) started to give the following error message at the beginning of
>startup, right after the background appears but before the extensions load. It
>does like this:
>
>The built-in memory test detected a problems with the cache memory. Please
>contact a service technician.
As someone else said, reinstall the Newer software. I think this is
MacOS trying to test the 256KB L2 cache on the original 603e CPU
card. Since that cache is removed along with the 603e when you
upgrade the 2400, of course the test fails. The Newer software
should normally suppress the warning.
Tim Seufert
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