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In article <823745748snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
           David@longley.demon.co.uk "David Longley" writes:

> 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. 
> 
> No video display - Some pushing or proding will sometimes bring it back
> to life - Does anyone know what this sequence means? I've tried a VLB
> card (Cirrus Logic 5428) and an ISA Tseng Labs ET4000. Thought it might
> be a VL Slot problem at one time as first time the Tseng went in, it
> booted. Now the Tseng produces he same result.
> 
> Has anyone got a manual for the Ocean (Octek) "Hippo" VL+ board?
> -- 
> David Longley
> 
If someone could give me a list of what the following jumpers are, it
may help track down the problem:

JP3     (and the one next to it - can't see the number)
JP4-5    ok - DX33/66 vs DX25/DX50
JP6,8,9  ok - DX/DX2 SX 467 select

JP13,14,15 ??
JP16 ?

JP7 ?
JP10 ?

BATTERY 3 PINS ?

apart from the BIOS chips, there's a socketed 

                  PALCE 16V8H-15PC/4 (U4)
                  337PZMN J
                  PAL093-404 

20 pin, DIL chip 

also a soldered in

 KMI SC425AP8  (U11)
      9338
      E6092     next to a 14.318 mhz cyrstal

     HM6818P
      9331 C38E1 (U18)

 TOSHIBA 9323W (U20)
 TC4069UBP


  LM339N (U19)

The rest seem to be LS series chips.


Apart from the jumpers, can anyone identify any of the above as being
critical to the RTC problem. Also suggest what the tones mean as the
system will not start up at all.

-- 
David Longley

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

:POST Code 1A Beep Codes
low high, low high low high high	- Real Time Clock is Not Updating
 
:POST Code 03 Beep Codes
low high, low low low			- ROM BIOS Checksum Test
 
:POST Code 04 Beep Codes
low high, high low low			- Page Register Test (Ports 81-8F)
 
:POST Code 05 Beep Codes
low high, low high low			- 8042 Keyboard Controller Selftest
 
:POST Code 07 Beep Codes
low high, high high low			- Memory Refresh Circuit Test
 
:POST Code 08 Beep Codes
low high, low low high			- Master (16bit) DMA Controller
					  Failure
low high, high low high			- Slave (8 bit) DMA Controller
					  Failure
 
:Post Code 0A Beep Codes
low high, low low low low		- Memory Bank 0 Pattern Test
Failure
low high, high low low low		- Memory Bank 0 Parity Circuitry
					  Failure
low high, low high low low		- Memory Bank 0 Parity Error
low high, high high low low		- Memory Bank 0 Data Bus Failure
low high, low low high low		- Memory Bank 0 Address Bus Failure
low high, high low high low		- Memory Bank 0 Block Access Read
					  Failure
low high, low high high low		- Memory Bank 0 Block Access
					  Read/Write Failure
 
:POST Code 0B Beep Codes
low high, high high high low		- Master 8259 (Port 21 ) Failure
low high, low low low high		- Slave 8259 (Port A1) Failure
 
:POST Code 0C Beep Codes
low high, high low low high		- Master 8259 (Port 20) Interrupt
					  Address Error
low high, low high low high		- Slave 8259 (Port A0) Interrupt
					  Address Error
low high, high high low low		- 8259 (Port 20/A0) Interrupt
					  Address Error
low high, low low high high		- Master 8259 (Port 20) Stuck
					  Intercept Error
low high, high low high high		- Slave 8259 (Port A0) Stuck
					  Intercept Error
low high, low high high high		- System Timer 8254 CH0/IRQ0
					  Interrupt Failure
 
:POST Code 0D Beep Codes
low high, high high high high		- 8254 Channel 0 Test and
					  Initialization
 
:POST Code 0E Beep Codes
low high, low low low low high		- 8254 Channel-2 (Speaker) Failure
low high, high low low low high		- 8254 OUT2 (Speaker Detect)
Failure
 
:POST Code 0F Beep Codes
low high, low high low low high		- CMOS RAM Read/Write Test Failure
low high, high high low low high	- RTC Periodic Interrupt / IRQ8
					  Failure
 
:POST Code 10 Beep Codes
low high, low low high low high		- Video Initialization and
					  (Cold-Boot) Signon Message
 
:POST Code 12 Beep Codes
low high, high low high low high	- Keyboard Controller Failure
 
:POST Code 17 Beep Codes
low high, low low low high high		- A20 Test Failure Due to 8042
					  Timeout
low high, high low low high high	- A20 Gate Stuck in Disabled State
 
:POST Code 19 Beep Codes
low high, low high high low high	- Memory Parity Error
low high, high high high low high	- IO Channel Error


-- 
andy@troas.demon.co.uk
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In article <311a94bd.31521016@158.152.254.254>
           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

Thanks to the recent post, I checked the RAM chips and double checked how they
are seated. That brought things back to life for now. I still have the RTC
racing problem though. Can anyone edentify any of the chips I have listed
and suggest what I can do to correct the problem?
-- 
David Longley