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Article #7837Re: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me (no RAM, system wont even do BIOS)
From: Mark Allender
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 1991 16:45
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 1991 16:45
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In article <61157@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Shawn E Thompson) writes: > > > Please help me.... > > I am asembling a 80286-12 system. I have everything hooked up, > no RAM, no floppies. I turned it on to test power. The poweer > LED came on, hard drive spooled up, but then nothing..... > no video, no error beeps, no BIOS, nothing! > > > is this normal, given my systems emptiness, or is my motherboard > bad??? > > > please reply... > Your system, like all pcs, is going to have to access ram at some point. Your bios probably started trying to stick things into zero page memory like it was supposed to, and couldn't find any memory, so it hangs. I think that it is just a BAD idea to do something like this........ -Mark Allender -University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -Conversation Builder Project -allender@cs.uiuc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs.uiuc.edu!uiucdcs!allender From: allender@cs.uiuc.edu (Mark Allender) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me (no RAM, system wont even do BIOS) Message-ID: <1991Feb22.164514.30880@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 22 Feb 91 16:45:14 GMT References: <61157@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Reply-To: allender@cs.uiuc.edu (Mark Allender) Organization: TechoPunks Ltd. -- Party Goers to the Max Lines: 28