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I have an 1986 A1000 ie with the keyboard parallogram problem, 512K,
2 floppies, 1.5 Mb Spirit Inboard running KS and WB 1.3.

For one of my configurations I run Matt's Dnet, UUCP, with qmouse 1.3,
facc II and an 880 K rad: disk for sys:. This leaves me about 500 K,
split 200 chip, 300 fast.

The problem, if I don't do a thing, just cold boot from kickstart, the
system will start to  freeze, the classic symptom of low memory, even 
although all the memory meters around say 500K. When the it Guru's the
Med error is: 82010000.26436036.

My Inboard is grounded and worked just dandy for over a year and it's only
in the last 2 months that this problem has shown up. VirusX doesn't report
a virus, and I rebuilt my disks from the original source, so this isn't
a virus. Therefore it's probably hardware. Can someone confirm this
diagnosis?

I'd like some pointers to where the problem possibly lies. Could it be
the solder joints have gone cold and should be redone. Might it be the
power supply. Have the chips gone bad? 

What is confusing is that this has the appearance of a memory leak, but
the meters don't record it. But the programs I'm running are all
certified OK in this regard. I have tried running different combinations
of utilities, the only thing that seems to change is the length of time
Guru.

Has anyone got any advice/suggestions. And no, I can't afford to upgrade
to a 2000...

BTW: Why do different memory programs usually report different amounts of
free ram, even when runnign at the same time?

Thanks for any help,

neil mcculloch                                       nmm@apss.ab.ca
Alberta Public Safety Services
Edmonton Alberta                                     (403) 451-7174