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Started by Roelof H. Pantjes
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:00
HELP: "ON BOARD PARITY ERROR"
Author: Roelof H. Pantjes
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:00
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I have an 486 DX2/66, 256K cache, 4M ram, AMI bios. When I turn the system on, pressing <DEL> during the memory test should enter the CMOS setup. Instead, I get the following error: ON BOARD PARITY ERROR ADDRESS (HEX): 0000:0004 What can be the reason of this error? I exchanged my RAM chips, but the error still occurs. Well, the error is probably not the RAM memory because the memory test goes well, and when I do not press <DEL> to enter the setup the system complains about a missing drive D: (true, but I can't get into the setup program to change that), and then after pressing <F1> to continue, the system correctly starts up. Can it be that my CMOS battery is getting out of power? I got the error "CMOS battery power low" once. Roelof ___________________________________________________ Roelof H. Pantjes <rpantjes@mcpvx2.ms.philips.nl> Philips Medical Systems Best Netherlands Department URF room QM 73 Telephone ..-31-40-2763196 ___________________________________________________
Re: HELP: "ON BOARD PARITY ERROR"
Author: Roelof H. Pantjes
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 00:00
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On Mon, 26 Feb 1996 12:15:53 GMT, rpantjes@mxsb10.ms.philips.nl (Roelof H. Pantjes) wrote: >I have an 486 DX2/66, 256K cache, 4M ram, AMI bios. When I turn the >system on, pressing <DEL> during the memory test should enter the CMOS >setup. Instead, I get the following error: > >ON BOARD PARITY ERROR >ADDRESS (HEX): 0000:0004 > >What can be the reason of this error? I exchanged my RAM chips, but >the error still occurs. Well, the error is probably not the RAM memory >because the memory test goes well, and when I do not press <DEL> to >enter the setup the system complains about a missing drive D: (true, >but I can't get into the setup program to change that), and then after >pressing <F1> to continue, the system correctly starts up. >Can it be that my CMOS battery is getting out of power? I got the >error "CMOS battery power low" once. > >Roelof > I ran the AMISETUP.EXE utility, corrected the drive D: setting and saved the settings to CMOS. After rebooting, the problem was solved. So I guess it wasn't the CMOS battery, but a wrong setting somewhere in the CMOS, causing an illegal state that the guys at AMI did not think off, resulting in the parity error message. A serious bug, because, no matter how bad the CMOS is, one should always be able to enter the bios setup! The utility was found on ftp.cdrom.com in directory /pub/simtel/msdos/sysutil under the name AMIS2990.ZIP. ___________________________________________________ Roelof H. Pantjes <rpantjes@mcpvx2.ms.philips.nl> Philips Medical Systems Best Netherlands Department URF room QM 73 Telephone ..-31-40-2763196 ___________________________________________________
Re: HELP: "ON BOARD PARITY ERROR"
Author: Roelof H. Pantjes
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 00:00
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On Mon, 26 Feb 1996 12:15:53 GMT, rpantjes@mxsb10.ms.philips.nl (Roelof H. Pantjes) wrote: >I have an 486 DX2/66, 256K cache, 4M ram, AMI bios. When I turn the >system on, pressing <DEL> during the memory test should enter the CMOS >setup. Instead, I get the following error: > >ON BOARD PARITY ERROR >ADDRESS (HEX): 0000:0004 > >What can be the reason of this error? I exchanged my RAM chips, but >the error still occurs. Well, the error is probably not the RAM memory >because the memory test goes well, and when I do not press <DEL> to >enter the setup the system complains about a missing drive D: (true, >but I can't get into the setup program to change that), and then after >pressing <F1> to continue, the system correctly starts up. >Can it be that my CMOS battery is getting out of power? I got the >error "CMOS battery power low" once. > >Roelof > I ran the AMISETUP.EXE utility, corrected the drive D: setting and saved the settings to CMOS. After rebooting, the problem was solved. So I guess it wasn't the CMOS battery, but a wrong setting somewhere in the CMOS, causing an illegal state that the guys at AMI did not think off, resulting in the parity error message. A serious bug, because, no matter how bad the CMOS is, one should always be able to enter the bios setup! The utility was found on ftp.cdrom.com in directory /pub/simtel/msdos/sysutil under the name AMIS2990.ZIP. ___________________________________________________ Roelof H. Pantjes <rpantjes@mcpvx2.ms.philips.nl> Philips Medical Systems Best Netherlands Department URF room QM 73 Telephone ..-31-40-2763196 ___________________________________________________
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