sankar@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Sriram Sankar) (10/02/90)
Hi Folks, I have a problem with my IBM AT clone. If I get half the responses I got when I posted a hard-disk problem, my clone will be up and running in no time. So, please send out those comments/suggestions! My machine was working well with 4MB of memory. I bought 4MB of DRAMS and plugged it in to get a total of 8MB of memory. The POST aborted after about 6MB. On subsequent boots the hard disk or hard disk controller stopped working, then the floppy stopped working and so on. Its like a virus has started eating away my computer. Here is the messages during boot: Phoenix 80386 ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 00 Copyright (C) 1985-1988 Phoenix Technologies Ltd. All Rights Reserved 80 DATA We develop speed and resolution 640K Base Memory 05120K Extended Memory Memory data line failure at 600000-60FFFF Decreasing available memory The first couple of times, my machine went on to reboot without any further problems, then the disks stopped working. I went back to Frys (Bay Area) where I purchased the chips and got them checked and exchanged, but the exact same problem remained. I removed all boards from the expansion slot except the VGA controller, but the problem still did not go away. Please send me any suggestions you have! Much appreciated! Thanks, Sriram.
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger) (10/03/90)
In article <1990Oct1.182502.10975@Neon.Stanford.EDU> sankar@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Sriram Sankar) writes: > >Hi Folks, > >I have a problem with my IBM AT clone. If I get half the responses I got >when I posted a hard-disk problem, my clone will be up and running in no time. >So, please send out those comments/suggestions! > >My machine was working well with 4MB of memory. I bought 4MB of DRAMS and >plugged it in to get a total of 8MB of memory. The POST aborted after about >6MB. On subsequent boots the hard disk or hard disk controller stopped >working, then the floppy stopped working and so on. Its like a virus has >started eating away my computer. > >Here is the messages during boot: > > >Phoenix 80386 ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 00 >Copyright (C) 1985-1988 Phoenix Technologies Ltd. >All Rights Reserved > >80 DATA >We develop speed and resolution > >640K Base Memory 05120K Extended Memory >Memory data line failure at 600000-60FFFF > Decreasing available memory > > > >The first couple of times, my machine went on to reboot without any >further problems, then the disks stopped working. I went back to >Frys (Bay Area) where I purchased the chips and got them checked and >exchanged, but the exact same problem remained. > >I removed all boards from the expansion slot except the VGA controller, >but the problem still did not go away. > >Please send me any suggestions you have! > Possibly in the act of putting the memory in/out, you loosened something. Reseat ALL boards and check ALL cable connections. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254