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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!shearson.com!paradox!jpoutre
- From: jpoutre@shearson.com (Joe Poutre)
- Subject: Model 90 memory problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.174803.1324@shearson.com>
- Summary: Error 00118
- Sender: news@shearson.com (News)
- Reply-To: jpoutre@shearson.com
- Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
- References: <72523@cup.portal.com>
- Distribution: na
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:48:03 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- All right, everybody. Here's a real challenge.
-
- Model PS/2 XP486
- 16 Meg (Tried 8x2, 4x4 and (2x4)+4x2), Color Monitor Model 8515
- Token Ring Card
- OS/2 2.0, w/ Lan Manager and Extended Services w/ Database Server
- installed, CSDs not yet installed
- TCP/IP w/ NFS and X installed, CSDs not yet installed
-
- On starting up, gives error 00118, a memory error. I have tried ignoring
- the message and starting the system anyway. It comes up OK, runs TCP/IP
- OK. I can do most of the stuff I need to, as far as I can tell. But when I
- start the included Klondike Solitaire it freezes. Locked tighterthan a
- drum. The cursor will move the mouse, but is shows the wait clock. No
- disk activity, I am unable to 'ping' it from other machines on the network.
- Not even Ctrl-Alt-Del does anything. On board system diagnostics
- failed to find an error.
-
- I know what you're saying - don't run Solitaire. Unfortunately, I haven't had
- a chance to test most of the other apps we run, since the damn thing tries
- to start Solitaire every time I reboot it.
-
- Our local PC support group (I'm a Sun sys admin and only a part-time OS/2
- sys admin) had tried replacing the memory, memory board, system board,
- graphics card, and hard drive. They are as baffled as I am. I have had a
- parade of their people in here over the last few weeks, and it still
- doesn't work.
-
- Any ideas? Will installing the CSDs cure this mystery disease? I was trying
- to run them when the forking thing conked out for about the 10th time.
-
- Please email me at the address below, and I will summarize if there is enough
- interest and someone comes up with a cure.
-
- ---
- Joseph Poutre, aka The Mad Mathematician N2KOW
- jpoutre@shearson.com
- Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he
- is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
- make messes in the house. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
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