In a message dated 09/29/1999 5:16:59 PM Eastern
Daylight Time,
yakowenk(a)cs.unc.edu writes:
Yesterday I scooped an AT&T PC 6300 Unix
machine on its way
to the dumpster. Got it home, powered it up, and now I know
why. It displays "Parity error on system board" and locks
up.
It seems to have 1MB of RAM, half socketed (36 81256's).
So I yanked the socketed chips, and tried again. Then
it did almost the same thing, but displayed a running
count up to 512K before that parity message.
Does this box have a BIOS setup program onboard or must you use a
configuration disk? (if so do you have the disk?)
I'd try turning off the parity check on the unlikely chance that the parity
check itself is loopy . . . other than that, you've got a _lot_ of soldering
to do ;>)
BTW ISTR that one of our "customers" abandoned a 6300 in lieu of having it
repaired. Contact me off-list if you're interested & I'll dig it out of the
back room and check it out again.
Regards,
Glen Goodwin
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