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- From: cfoley@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Ciaran Foley)
- Subject: DESPERATELY NEED HELP! 486 50Mhz problem!
- Message-ID: <9209131234.aa26202@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
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- Date: 13 Sep 92 19:34:36 GMT
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- Hi all!
-
- Two questions for you:
-
- 1) I own a 486 50mhz, 8 meg 70 ns memory, etc. etc. It IS a Dx. For the
- last 3 quarters of a year, it hasn't given me ANY trouble. However,
- recently, it has been acting up. The following message appears on
- the screen:
- ON BOARD PARITY ERROR
- ADDR (hex) = (1000:A172)
- SYSTEM HALTED
-
- Sometimes it appears as:
-
- ON BOARD PARITY ERROR = ????
-
- The problem is random, and does not appear to be heat/humidity
- related (as I installed a heat sink AND a second fan).
- Any ideas as to what my next step should be?
-
- 2) My girlfriend owns a 386Dx 25mhz. Recently, for no reason, she
- turns on the computer and it gives 4 consequtive beeps and
- fails to boot/activate screen/present any message at all?
- Any ideas on this beast?
-
- And no, the computers are not related, and have not transmitted any
- viruses to each other! ;-)
-
- Thanks!
-
- Ciaran Foley
-
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