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In article <808434364snz@alcarg.demon.co.uk>
           Al@alcarg.demon.co.uk "Al Cargill" writes:

> 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
> 

With the help given to me from my original post I went back and 
tackled the problem refreshed! I took the whole thing apart and then 
put it back together and the problem has gone. I think the problem 
was probably due to a dodgy contact between SIMM and socket (I have a 
couple with soldered connectors). The reason I didn't think it was 
that initially was that it had gone through the POST RAM OK and only 
after accessing the floppy (no hard drive present to keep things 
simpler!) did it crash out. Therefore it appears that the boot up RAM 
check is not 100% reliable? 
	Thanks to all for the help and sorry to waste bandwidth on 
something that seems to have been so simple.

Al