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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wednesday, 26 Jun 1991 11:07:36 CDT
From: <U35828@uicvm.uic.edu>
Message-ID: <91177.110737U35828@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Serial/Paralell woes

Hello netters,

I have been having trouble with my serial/paralell card.  Whenever I
power up, the computer would beep 9 times (AMI ROM BIOS failure) and
just do nothing (the rest of the POST).  My field expedient solution is
to flick the power switch on and off until the system does boot.

I did notice some interesting things, however.  Whenever I removed the
hard drive controller (a Seagate ST22M), and left in the I/O card (or
vice versa), things would be okay.  I set the address jumpers on both
cads such that there will not be a conflict, but the problem still
persists.

SYSTEM SETUP:

386sx-20 with 2mb ram (AMI BIOS, Intel VLSI chipset)
Seagate ST22M (HD I/O Ports)  (FDD I/O Ports)
                1F0-1F7         3F0-3F5
                3F6-3F7           3F7

2S/1P/1G  Port Setting  (LPT2)  (COM3)  (COM4)
                         378     3E8     2E8

BOCA Basic VGA + IBM 8512 monitor (from my 30-286)

HD:  Seagate ST-4051 (a tempermental beast)
FDD: Toshiba 1.2mb, Sony 1.44mb

Genuine IBM 84-key AT KBD

Any and all suggested solutions are welcome.