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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Problem while expanding memory
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.195407.978@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 19:54:07 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.182502.10975@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <1990Oct1.182502.10975@Neon.Stanford.EDU> sankar@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Sriram Sankar) writes:
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>I have a problem with my IBM AT clone.  If I get half the responses I got
>when I posted a hard-disk problem, my clone will be up and running in no time.
>So, please send out those comments/suggestions!
>
>My machine was working well with 4MB of memory.  I bought 4MB of DRAMS and
>plugged it in to get a total of 8MB of memory.  The POST aborted after about
>6MB.  On subsequent boots the hard disk or hard disk controller stopped
>working, then the floppy stopped working and so on.  Its like a virus has
>started eating away my computer.
>
>Here is the messages during boot:
>
>
>Phoenix 80386 ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 00
>Copyright (C) 1985-1988 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
>All Rights Reserved
>
>80 DATA
>We develop speed and resolution
>
>640K Base Memory  05120K Extended Memory
>Memory data line failure at 600000-60FFFF
>   Decreasing available memory
>
>
>
>The first couple of times, my machine went on to reboot without any
>further problems, then the disks stopped working.  I went back to 
>Frys (Bay Area) where I purchased the chips and got them checked and
>exchanged, but the exact same problem remained.
>
>I removed all boards from the expansion slot except the VGA controller,
>but the problem still did not go away.
>
>Please send me any suggestions you have!
>

Possibly in the act of putting the memory in/out, you loosened something.
Reseat ALL boards and check ALL cable connections.

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