Hey all,
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. Actually, it displayed a bit more:
Resident Diagnostics
Ver 2.05P
CPU (i286) PASS
ROM Module PASS
DMA Timer PASS
DMA Control PASS
Interrupts PASS
Parity error on system board
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.
So, what's next? I'm guessing that at least one of the
socketed chips was bad, because it got farther before
barfing when they were removed. But there is some other
problem too, maybe in the soldered-in RAM chips, or
maybe in the parity-check circuit itself.
Anybody got a service manual or schematics or a big pile
of clues for this thing?
Cheers,
Bill.