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- From: psrk_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Peter Sierk)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Help, my system keeps crashing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.220029.6656@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 22:00:29 GMT
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- Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
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- I have a 386/40 system which I put together myself. Unfortunately,
- it tends not to work. I've had more CMOS checksum failures than I can count
- and a lot of the time I can't even get the machine to turn on (it doesn't
- even get the VGA BIOS up on the screen). Every once in a while it will
- crash and beep at me, usually letting me know that I've had a base 64k memory
- failure, or else a video error (I have a Diamond Stealth card). I've even
- had the system lock in the CMOS setup screen.
- I'll finally be getting a chance to experiment with other equipment,
- so I was planning on trying a different power supply, and different memory.
- Can anyone think of anything else that I can try before I decide that my
- motherboard is junk? Thanks in advance.
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- Peter Sierk
- psrk_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
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