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- From: mikeb@pandora.dell.com (Michael Brundridge)
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- Subject: Re: DESPERATELY NEED HELP! 486 50Mhz problem!
- Message-ID: <mikeb.716482542@pandora>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 14:55:42 GMT
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- cfoley@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Ciaran Foley) writes:
-
- >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
-
- Try swapping the SIMMS around first and see if the address changes
- from what you listed to some new address. If it does you have a bad
- SIMM. If it does not then you might have a bad SIMM socket, or the
- NMI line might be being pulled down.
-
- >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?
-
- This sounds like bad VIDEO MEMORY. If the computer does this quite
- frequently, when it starts pull the video card out and see if it
- changes the beep sequence. Or it might quit all together.
-
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