On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:57:22 +0800, Raymond Tejano wrote:
> I have a couple of 286's machines, which I seldomly used 'caused I'm having
> trouble of booting them. Both machines have 1mb, CGA and 250 MB HD. Both
> machine hangs after 1mb memory check and the worst is that doesn't even
> display the BIOS settings (warmboot) and hangs.. After a couple or more
> resets, I did pass memory check and able to run DOS. Any ideas of fixing my
> problem.
Raymond - just a thought or two. Firstly, is the parity or
no-parity for RAM set correctly in BIOS. Possibly if the machine
expects to find a parity bit and the RAM hasn't got one, random
results could occur. Secondly, is there any cache and, if so, is
it set up correctly in the BIOS?
Finally, I've found that sometimes a machine can just crash
lifeless at reset because the video card has developed some
fault. On one occasion, it was simply that the card wasn't quite
seated in its ISA slot properly.
Hope this might give you some clues!
Ron.
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