>It looks like the parity error is happening just below the 4MB boundary,
>which would seem to indicate that it's a problem with memory card #1 (the
>one in slot #5). Try removing that card and replacing it with the one
>from
>slot #3. You'll have to change a jumper on the card to mark it as RAM
>CARD
>#1 (or #0, depending on how they numbered those...). That will take you
>down to 8MB of RAM, but it's probably your only solution if that mem card
>is bad.

If it's really a 3/160, the first 4 Mbytes are on the CPU board and I
don't know if there is a jumper on the board to disable the on-board
RAM...so this might be a reason why the machine was thrown out :-(


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