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- From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
- Subject: Repairing motherboards: is it doable?
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- Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:29:08 GMT
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- A week and a half ago, I bought a new SCSI disk drive for my 386/25
- PC (to replace an RLL). This 'upgrade' has proven to be my most costly ever.
-
- During all the power-cycling required to determine that neither of the
- SCSI controllers at my disposal would work properly for me, I blew out
- the old monitor *and* the motherboard.
-
- The motherboard actually still works, partially, and I'm wondering if
- it might possibly be repaired. It has a 1989-vintage AMI BIOS containing
- standard and extended setup screens. One of the bits in the extended-
- setup screen is "memory interleave".
-
- No matter how I try to set this bit, the BIOS configuration report displayed
- at boot time says "Memory interleave: disabled". The failure happened
- suddenly after a reboot on Thursday evening, and it seems permanent.
- Without interleave, this 386 performs like an old 286 machine.
-
- This led to a decision to replace the computer, but I'd still like to
- be able to use the old one (at its normal speed) for word-processing
- and such. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
-
- -rich
-