andie@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Andie Ness) (06/17/91)
[Sorry if this has been covered before, I'm new to this group] When I went to turn on my trusty old PC the other day, it went through the usual memory check and then beeped once, the display cleared and it proclaimed in a "larger than usual" font, " DMA #2 ERROR SYSTEM HALTED [or something very similar] At first, I thought it would be a chip seating problem so I removed all the socketed chips, cleaned the contacts and resat them. Same thing happened. Could this be a case for a new 82C206 ? My beast is a NEAT 286 with AMI bios and a 82C206 Integrated peripheral controller. Unfortunately, the manul for the motherboard has obviously been mistranslated from it's original language so it's less than useless. Please reply by mail and [if there's any interest] I'll summarize. Thanks. --Andie. -- Andie Ness, CSTR, University of Edinburgh, EDINBURGH. JANET: andie@uk.ac.ed.cstr Phone: +44 31 650 2770 ARPA: andie%ed.cstr@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk +44 31 225 8883 UUCP: ...!uunet!mcsun!cstr!andie Fax: +44 31 226 2730