[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Old PC don't want to boot

roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) (12/14/89)

A friend of mine has 2 computers. He recently moved 2 banks of 64-k
chips from the PC(a 256k motherboard Big Blue, with an XT bios) to his
turbo clone. The clone works fine, and has 640k in it now.

Here's the problem... the PC now fails boot with the error message:

3001 201
Parity Check 1

We have set and reset the dipswitches on both the motherboard and the
AST SixPak. We also re-populated the SixPak to 384k. Still, the PC
doesn't want to boot, or if it _does_ boot, Norton SI reports 512k of
memory in 4 chunks. (0000-3000, 4000-6000, 7000-A000, and display memory
from B000-B800)

I would appreciate any ideas on how to proceed. The PC worked fine until
my friend dug into it (that'll teach him to proceed without me ;-).

E-mail responses, if you please, and I'll summarize any responses.
(posting is fine, too, but I read my mail before I read news :-)

Thanks in advance.............


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