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- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: Help, my system keeps crashing
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:19:45 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.181945.22338@openage.openage.com>
- References: <1992Dec14.220029.6656@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- psrk_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Peter Sierk) writes:
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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.
-
- > Peter Sierk
- > psrk_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
-
- Get new CMOS chips, and try disabling the caching and shadowing.
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