[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] Humidity causing boot problem?

tdd@convex.cl.msu.edu (Thomas D. Davis) (08/28/90)

My 286 clone failed to boot for me last night.  It worked fine just
a couple days ago but we've had 90/90 days (temperature/humidity)
since it last worked.

During booting I get two short beeps and nothing on the monitor.  I
seem to be able to run DOS in "the blind", but that's not much use...
(or maybe it is ;-)  The generic manual I got with the machine says
that two beeps indicates a parity circuit not working (Award BIOS).

Any idea if this will go away after things cool off?
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