jlu@mrevox.UUCP (01/15/88)
-->One of the secretaries in our office can't get her PC going. When she
-->turns on the computer, it goes through its usual self-test. Then the
-->screen displays
-->
-->"2020 201"
-->
-->in the upper corner for about .5 sec, and the clears and displays
-->
-->"Parity Check 1"
-->
-->indefinitely. The disk drive also coughs for about .5 sec. She can't
-->get any disks to boot, not even Diagnostics.
-->
-->Any Clues? I'd GREATLY appreciate some. My supervisor is getting kinda
-->tired of increasing maintenance/repair costs that my office is building up.
-->
-->S. Vasudevan
-->svv@cory.berkeley.edu
This sounds like the memory check test. Does it do this after going through
all the memory?
Jeff Urlwin
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jurlwin@colgateu BITNETpjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) (01/17/88)
201 is the memory test failure number, and 2020 is the chip number. If memory
serves, that's row 2, bit 5.
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