lance@helios.ucsc.edu (Lance Bresee) (01/12/91)
I recently purchased an Everex Expanded Memory Card for my XT. I could not get the thing to work in my machine....I tried all possible configurations of the switch settings, which set the ammouunt of memory on the main board and the addresses of the io ports. My machine is a magitronic 10MHZ XT clone running Phoenix Bios V2.27 with com1 and com2 installed, a single printer port at standard address for LPT1, and a VGA card. I also have a floppy controller with on-board bios for high density drives. The expanded memory card exibited two symptoms, depending on switch setting... one was an IO CARD PARITY ERROR NMI in the first segment..ie the MSB of the offset was 0..otherwise, I would get no NMI but the software would not find any expanded memory. If anyone can suggest a possible conflict existing in my setup, I would be EXTREMELY grateful. Also, I am considering putting the expanded memory into my sister's PS/2 model 25, which she uses for accounting work and could use expanded memory for Quatro. Does anyone know if there would be any incompatibility in putting the card into the 25? I believe that the expansion slots are identical as the XT slots, but I do not know if IBM has some bios problems which would cause a problem. thanx muchly to all lance%helios.ucsc.edu or lance%helios@ucscc.ucsc.edu