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Re: "PCI Bus Mainboard 486" & DX4-100 'Dead' ?

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From: bgridley
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 00:00
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David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>- PCI Bus Mainboard 486 - AMIBIOS 1994/5

>I  have  just  spent  the evening trying to get  a  new  "PCI  Bus 
>Mainboard 486" motherbaord to work with a new Intel DX4-100 and a 
>16MB SIMM (no parity). AMIBIOS (c) 1994, creation date July 1995,

>The system started up first of all, but couldn't see the  floppy. 
>From  then  on,  things just got worse. In the  end,  the  system 
>wouldn't boot at all. Power connections are OK, as are the  leads 
>to the system unit, RAM is OK...cabling is OK....

>Has  anyone  got  any experience of this board or  this  kind  of 
>failure?

>How do you clear CMOS RAM? The only thing I can think of is  that 
>I have switched something on like internal cache when there isn't 
>any. Could that account for the observed behaviour of the system?
>-- 
>David Longley
I do not know what your problem may be but, the DX4/100 does in fact
have internal cache
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From: bgridley@servtech.com
Subject: Re: "PCI Bus Mainboard 486" & DX4-100 'Dead' ?
Date: 1995/12/27
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