[wellylug] IBM pc server 704 for help

[Nathan Cook]

Did you try the sticks in different RAM slots?

On 4/19/07, Mian Lin <armislin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Thanks Nathan,  I did try one stick at a time, still Beeps. So the
> memtest  cannot do anything.,I wander it is the memory board problem. Buying
> a new motherboard should be more expensive than the machine itself. ^_^ And
> the machine is quite old. Not sure IBM still has that part.
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> *From:* wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz [mailto:
> wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz] *On Behalf Of *Nathan Cook
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 18 April 2007 7:00 p.m.
> *To:* Wellington Linux Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [wellylug] IBM pc server 704 for help
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> Could be one of the memory sticks playing up, place one stick at a time
> into the server and run memtest (http://www.memtest.org/) over them, if it
> passes the memory is fine, the next step is that it could be the memory
> controller, a new motherboard will solve this :)
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> On 4/18/07, *Mian Lin* <armislin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
> I need some advice about the IBM PC SERVER 704. I got it recently. I
> boot it once and install openbsd on it successfully with bsd.mp , but
> the other day, it beeps three times and stop doing anything, no vidio
> output to show the error message, referred to the manual, it means
> "the first 64k memory failure". I tried to reduce the memory sticks(16
> peices), but it seems doing nothing. what can I do now?
>
> cheers,Mian
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