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From: jlu@mrevox.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Error on IBM PC self-test
Message-ID: <1200001@mrevox.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 15:39:00 GMT
References: <174@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc.
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Nf-ID: #R:cory.Berkeley.EDU:-17400:mrevox:1200001:000:796
Nf-From: mrevox!jlu    Jan 15 10:39:00 1988

-->One of the secretaries in our office can't get her PC going. When she
-->turns on the computer, it goes through its usual self-test. Then the
-->screen displays 
-->
-->"2020 201"
-->
-->in the upper corner for about .5 sec, and the clears and displays
-->
-->"Parity Check 1"
-->
-->indefinitely. The disk drive also coughs for about .5 sec. She can't
-->get any disks to boot, not even Diagnostics.
-->
-->Any Clues? I'd GREATLY appreciate some. My supervisor is getting kinda
-->tired of increasing maintenance/repair costs that my office is building up.
-->
-->S. Vasudevan
-->svv@cory.berkeley.edu

This sounds like the memory check test.  Does it do this after going through
all the memory?

Jeff Urlwin

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