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Article #2273Re: Low--High--High--High--Low--Low Boot Tone & Hippo VL+
From: David Longley
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 00:00
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andy@troas.demon.co.uk "Andy D" writes:
> David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >The VL+ "Hippo" board made by OCTEK (Ocean) produces the following sequence
> >of tones on boot up:
> >
> >Low--High--High--High--Low--Low Al are long tones with gaps.
>
> If you have a MrBios on your M/B, these might help, from the
> comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.* FAQ
>
> Depending on the reported code, it looks like either Memory Bank 0 Data Bus
> Failure or 8259 (Port 20/A0) Interrupt Address Error
>
> low high, high high low low - Memory Bank 0 Data Bus Failure
That sound like it - do you know where that problem lies and what one can
do about it.
I'm *very* grateful for your help on this - you've gone a LONG way to
explaining what the problem is.
--
David Longley
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