[ale] memory check in bios

[jknapka at kneuro.net (Joe Knapka)]

Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> writes:

> I've got this older box I'm trying to resurrect, it's a k5-400.  I'm
> seeing something weird I've never seen before.  When I go into the
> bios, any keyboard actions are delayed substantially.  Further, when
> it used to do it's memory check on boot, it would quickly cycle
> through the memory until it reached the max, then boot.  Now when it
> boots, it will cycle through the memory a bit, the stall, start up
> again, stall and so on until it's run to the max.
> 
> Anyone ever see anything like this?  Memory test is next....

Perhaps L1 and/or L2 caching is disabled in the BIOS? (SWAG...)

-- Joe

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