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From: bgeer@javelin.es.com (Bob Geer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DTK motherboards
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.001601.26744@javelin.es.com>
Date: 9 Feb 91 00:16:01 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.012557.13458@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> <26767@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <6142@pbhyc.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: bgeer%javelin@dsd.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
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djnelso@PacBell.COM (David J. Nelson) writes:
>I have a DTK 386-20 mother board and have had problems with it. As long as
>I had only 1 Meg of ram it ran fine. As soon as I installed the Ram Card
>and more Ram ( 2 megs, 4 megs or 5 megs, tried all), it reports with a
>criptic error message

>Parity Error Segment not found
>Press any key to continue

>Most of the time the machine is locked now and require a reboot. This has
>happend with almost every program I have. Ihave tried diffrent ram cards
>and chips on both the card an MB. Still same problem. DTK doesn't really
>admit to a problem, say they have never heard of this before, but will fix
>for a small $160 fee. 

I incurred this error only when using Win3's SmartDrv.sys; no
occurance after I removed it (running Win3 without it).  I have 4 Meg
of 80ns ram on their 32-bit add-in board.  I'm currently looking for a
copy of Checkit or QARam ram checking program to make a thorough test.
Will post results.

Please post any info you find on this problem...I'm not getting any
e-mail yet.  Thanks.









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