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- From: rol@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Paul Rolland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Weird numbers on boot from 8088 PC...
- Message-ID: <rol-210193094017@90.222.1.80>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 08:39:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.112747.16892@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.112747.16892@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>,
- pl3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu wrote:
- >
- >
- > When I turn on my original 8088 IBM PC without
- > the memory card in it, I get a set of 7 hex digits,
- > then a parrity error 2.
- >
- > When I have the card inserted, I get the same set of
- > digits.
- >
- > They look like this, at the top of the clear screen
- >
- > 4050 201
- >
- > or
- >
- > 407b 201
- >
- > or
- >
- > 4055 201
- >
- > or without the card in, or the card (magitronics 603 card, 6 dips),
- >
- > 4098 201
- >
- > Originally I thought the card sent these values, but the values
- > must originate from the motherboard.
- >
- Well, If my memory is good, this indicates an error on the mother board and
- must be decrypted as follows :
- 201 is the error code, indicating what the problem is, and
- 4055, 4098... is the location code. This code tells you which part of your
- PC
- is faulty. Badly, I cant tell you how to decode this values, and I think
- that originally, only IBM people could decode these...
-
- Paul Rolland
-
- A bug can be changed to a feature by documenting it. Developpers know !
-