Subject: Re: pc164 board problems
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Anders Hogrelius <ahs@hogrelius.nu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/04/2002 08:58:03
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> According to my PC164 manual, 6 beeps is the same as POST code 3F
> fatal error subcode 6, which is:
> 	Checksum error detected when image was read back from memory
>
> Sounds like dodgy memory to me.
>
Yepp, that's right, but it could be a flaky mainboard as well. I had a
PC164 mainboard that showed the same symptoms, but no matter what memory i
put on the board it still gave those 6 beeps. Seems like a faulty memory
controller can give the same error.

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cheers,

/Anders

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