PS9ZRHMC@MIAMIU.BITNET (Peter Sweeney) (06/12/91)
I just spent several hours with a bunch of IBM PCs.
8088 machines. Real dinosaurs. Any way, we were
installing some extra memory in these things, and on two
of them we kept getting memory errors during the
self-diagnostic the machine did at startup.
The errors looked something like this: XXXX 301, where
XXXX could be any sequence of numbers, sometimes
in hexadecimal format. For example,
6001, or 7055, or 40FF. Now, I guessed that the first
digit meant what bank of memory contained the bad
chip. But where exactly in the bank was anyone's guess.
I resorted to simply taking one chip oout at a time
and replcing it with a new one, and then restarting
the machine. This was painfully inefficient to say the least.
Can someone tell me how to determine from the numbers the
self-diagnostic gave me which chip had gone bad?
Even educated guesses would be better than what I've got now.
Thanks.
Peter Sweeney |
Network Administrator |
Miami University |
Oxford, Ohio 45056 | INTERNET:ps9zrhmc@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
P.S. Yes, I've read the manual for the card and the Guide to Operations.
Absolutely no help there