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- From: gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys)
- Subject: Re: Need help with Chicony motherboard
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.000331.15094@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <Bt7095.51y@news.larc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:56:21 GMT
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- In article <Bt7095.51y@news.larc.nasa.gov>, dmk@air16.larc.nasa.gov (Dan M. Koppen) writes...
- >Hi netters,
- > About six months ago, I bought a used Chicony model CH-386S-16D
- >motherboard with 4 Mbytes of DRAM. It has space for 4 more Mbytes
- >of SIMMs, but when I installed the SIMMs nothing happened (I still
- >had only 4 Mbytes). When I take the DRAMs out the board senses the
- >SIMMs, so I know the SIMMs are good. Moving jumpers 21-26 does
- >nothing (jumpers 21-26 set up the SIMMS to be either bank 0-1 or
- >bank 2-3 depending on the existense of DRAMs, the DRAMs _must_ be
- >banks 0-1).
- > I have looked all through the Chicony manual and can not find a
- >mailing address or phone number anywhere. Could some kind netter
- >help me (if they have a similar board)? Or at least send me
- >information on how to contact the company? I strongly suspect I need
- >a BIOS upgrade.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >Daniel Koppen
- >dmk@air31.larc.nasa.gov
-
-
- I used to have the same board and I started with simms and added the
- dips. All I needed to do (I hope I'm remembering correctly) was to make sure
- that those jumpers were set properly. I do know that all the info was in the
- manual, but it might have been a bit obscure. Chicony does have a US office,
- but I don't know how to contact them. BTW - any Chicony product is made by the
- same company and an address for any of them should be able get you the info on
- another division.
-
- The only other problem might be that I have found that you sometimes
- need to boot more than once to get the post to set the right values into the
- cmos. Just do it a few times in a row following the instructions to
- go through the setup procedure without changing any hardware. You could also
- try doing the settings yourself if that was possible - I don't remember.
-
- /s/ Bob Gettys
-