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On board parity error - does this mean what I think it does?

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From: Al Cargill
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 00:00

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I am trying to put together a system based around an old 386DX40 
motherboard. When it was pulled out a long time ago it was working 
perfectly. However now it gets through the initial RAM check and then 
as it is looking at the floppy drive it gives the following error 
message

	ON BOARD PARITY ERROR
	ADDR (HEX) = (0000:0002)
	SYSTEM HALTED

	The motherboard has 64K cache and an AMI BIOS. Now I presume 
the error message means that one (or more?) of the cache chips is 
fritzed. I am right on this? I would like to know if I am on the 
right track before I start pulling out the chips as I am sure to make 
a bodge job of that and so I would like to know that I have to do it 
before I do!! 
	If I set the jumpers such that it is set for 0K cache 
even though the chips are in place will this cause any damage? I 
have tried switching off the external cache in the BIOS but this 
doesn't change what happens when it is switched on.

Thanks in advance for any help

Al
al@alcarg.demon.co.uk

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From: Al Cargill <Al@alcarg.demon.co.uk>
Subject: On board parity error - does this mean what I think it does?
Date: 1995/08/14
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