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From: mark@gizzmo.UUCP (mark hilliard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO Unix and AMI Mark-II 386-33 motherboard
Message-ID: <2@gizzmo.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 91 01:55:49 GMT
References: <850@tiamat.fsc.com>
Reply-To: mark@gizzmo.UUCP (mark hilliard)
Organization: gizzmo, Walworth, Ny.
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In article <850@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) writes:
>I'm having a little trouble, and maybe someone can help.
>
>The configuration that works is:
>AMI Mark-II 386-33 motherboard, with 8MB RAM on motherboard (reported
>	as 8064K by both the BIOS and boot messages)
>SCO Unix 386 Release 3.2v2.0 (no SLS's added to system)
>
>Is there any reason SCO Unix should not be booting when going from
>8064K to 11904K?  I'll run a more thorough RAM test tomorrow, but my
>guess is that the RAM is OK.  But, I wouldn't expect SCO Unix to flake
>out either.

I am running 2 of the same boards that you have.  I had this same problem 
when I went over 16 meg.  I called SCO and discovered that during the boot
process they REALLY check the memory over, and if any problems are found
the system dies.  For a fix I called AMI and they sent a new version of
a PAL that fixed the problem altogether.  This PAL was free and they shipped
it overnight.

Make sure that you have none of the BIOS ram shadowing enabled, and check
your sims to make sure that they are all rated at 80ns or faster.



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