Re: ||||| DMA Problem ........ ||||||

Article View: demon.tech.pc

Article #69311

#69311

From: David Longley
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:00

27 lines
1394 bytes

In article <3162f574.1671850@news.demon.co.uk>
           paulski@deco.demon.co.uk "PaulS" writes:

> May have a little problem here. I have been running some diagnostics
> on my system and when I came to check the two dma's the following
> problem is reported.
> 
> DMA #2 Failure : Page reg test.
> 
> Now I took a look in Mullers "Upgrading and repairing ...." but zilch.
> Any technicians out there to tell me more ?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Paul.                paulski@deco.demon.co.uk
> 

I had something like that recently

   !!!!!! DMA FAILURE !!!!!

During boot up. In the end, I don;t know for sure if it was a bad motherboard
or a bad oak technology VGA card. The card worked fine in an 8 bit slot,
but all sorts of odd things occurred in a 16 bit slot. The board was a 
486 MAINBOARD.......
-- 
David Longley

Technical Details

Message-ID: <828568319snz@longley.demon.co.uk>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <3162f574.1671850@news.demon.co.uk>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,d4e1f539894ae2f4
X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public
From: David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: |||||  DMA Problem ........  ||||||
Date: 1996/04/03
Message-ID: <828568319snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
X-Deja-AN: 146134805
x-nntp-posting-host: longley.demon.co.uk
references: <3162f574.1671850@news.demon.co.uk>
x-mail2news-path: longley.demon.co.uk
organization: Relational Systems & Technology
reply-to: David@longley.demon.co.uk
newsgroups: demon.tech.pc

Reply to Parent Message