How Impaired Is PC With Failed Cache Memory?

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Earl C Phillips

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We run a MARS program to refurbish older PCs for non-profits. Recently I ran into two PCs that show failure of cache memory when diagnosed with Smith Micro Checkit software.

Does this make them just slow, or are they inoperable or unreliable? One recently seemed to run XP fine but the cache memory test failed. Is cache memory replacable on a motherboard without major surgery? Is it worth the trouble or do we just salvage parts and move on?

Earl C Phillips
 
um no cache is the memory imbeded into the cpu what you could do is just replace the cpu, if its an older model im surey ou can fidn another used cpu very cheap.
 
Yes it is L2 on the motherboard. The CPU tests OK but the cache on the mobo tests bad. I could not find anything in the BIOS to turn the cache on or off. Does anyone know how Checkit tests this? Most of all, does this fatally effect the PC?
 
Those old boards have jumpers rather than bios settings. The jumpers should be labeled. Pulling all the cache chips may disable the cache if they're in sockets.
 
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