Re: Could this be a hardware problem?

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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 09:34:56 -0800

Duh.

Emeric Maschino wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm setting up a small workstation based on an AlphaPC 164LX motherboard
> with a 533MHz CPU. Currently, the graphics adapter is a Diamond Stealth
> 64 (waiting for my Permedia 2-based card) and the HDD is an IDE one on
> the onboard primary controller (master). I need to install Windows NT on
> this workstation (because!).
>
> I'm starting with AlphaBIOS 5.66-1 and an IDE CD-ROM drive on the
> onboard primary controller (slave). Once the HDD is successfully
> partitioned with Quick Setup, I choose the option to install Windows NT.
> The CD-ROM LED blinks a few milliseconds, then the screen goes black and
> nothing more happens. I first thought my Windows NT CD-ROM was
> corrupted. Trying an other one gives the same result. Furthermore, the
> Windows NT CD-ROM is correctly recognized: if I insert something else,
> I'm asked to install the Windows NT CD-ROM. So the problem is not here.
> Switching to AlphaBIOS 5.70 doesn't solve my problem. I even tried to
> install from a SCSI Pioneer 303S DVD-ROM drive hooked to an Adaptec 2940
> SCSI adapter (recognized by AlphaBIOS) without success.
>
> For information, this motherboard is fitted with four 256MB sticks of
> Samsung registered ECC PC100 (M377S3320 CT3-C1H) coming from an Itanium
> workstation. I know that the AlphaPC 164LX Technical Reference Manual
> says the memory is expandable up to 512MB only, but there's a Memory
> Testing item in the AlphaBIOS's Advanced CMOS Setup that can be set to
> Full to test up to 1GB RAM. So 1GB should be supported on this
> motherboard and I found many posts of people with such a configuration.
> The bad thing is during the memory test, the system locks at 246MB
> although there's no problem on the Itanium system. Is it due to the fact
> that these memory modules are registered and not unbuffered as stated in
> the AlphaPC Technical Reference Manual? Can this memory problem prevents
> the installation of Windows NT (I haven't try to install Linux yet)?
>
> Where should I go now?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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