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From: andie@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Andie Ness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: DMA #2 Error
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Date: 17 Jun 91 09:12:23 GMT
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[Sorry if this has been covered before, I'm new to this group]

When I went to turn on my trusty old PC the other day, it went through the usual
memory check and then beeped once, the display cleared and it proclaimed in a
"larger than usual" font, "

	DMA #2 ERROR
	SYSTEM HALTED

[or something very similar]

At first, I thought it would be a chip seating problem so I removed all the socketed chips, cleaned the contacts and resat them. Same thing happened.

Could this be a case for a new 82C206 ? 

My beast is a NEAT 286 with AMI bios and a 82C206 Integrated peripheral controller. 
Unfortunately, the manul for the motherboard has obviously been mistranslated from 
it's original language so it's less than useless.

Please reply by mail and [if there's any interest] I'll summarize.

Thanks.

--Andie.


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Andie Ness, CSTR, University of Edinburgh, EDINBURGH.
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