bios parity check

[jash]

I'm trying to sort out a friend's machine.

As he had only 32Mb RAM I've put in a new 128Mb. The machine seems to run fine but if I enable BIOS parity check, it says there's a system error and hangs.

I'm just running CheckIt Memory test which reported errors too numerous to mention with the old memory installed (it gave up about half way through the memory check, so I'll see what results come up with the new.

The main memory has passed but CheckIt says the video memory has failed, so that is an improvement (its an old Trio 3D card).

So back to my original question - should I be concerned about the parity check?

[glc]

Considering you most likely do not have parity type memory, nope. Can you give us more system details?

[jash]

Its a Gigabyte GA-5AA motherboard running Windows 98SE with an S3 Trio3D AGp card for which I have found the right driver and a Release Sound FX soundcard for which I haven't.
The RAM from crucial is 128MB 168-pin DIMM 16M*64 SDRAM PC100
Cheers

[glc]

Yep - thats not parity enabled memory. I would seriously consider pulling the 32mb stick out and running just the 128.

Release Sound FX? I can't find such an animal - check the main chip on the board and post what it says on it.....

AD1816? ESS something - like 1868? Opti something - like 924?

[jash]

Thanks for that

Yes sorry: its Reveal Sound FX RV82C929KT. Is that enough?
There is also another reference no:FCC ID: DXLSK803.

Should I be worried by the video memory fail?There is also this reporton the motherboard from CheckIt which I don't follow:
11/22/2001 13:41:33 System Board Test v5.00 Started.
13:41:33 CKSYS /T:1cnrdi /I:r /O:C:\TSC\CHECKIT\TESTS\CKSYS.RPT,a /W:CheckIt.ini
13:41:33 Cycle 1 of 1 begin.
13:41:33 System Board Test initialized OK.
13:41:33 Central Processor
13:41:33 General Functions
13:41:33 Interrupt Bug
13:41:33 Multiply Bug
13:41:33 Protected Mode
13:41:33 Numerical Processor
13:41:33 Arithmetic
13:41:33 Pentium Divide
13:41:33 Equation: Y = 1 - ((1 / 824633702441) * 824633702441)
13:41:33 Expected Y = 0.0000000000000000
13:41:33 Calculated Y = 0.0000000000000000
13:41:33 Logarithmic
13:41:33 Comparison
13:41:33 Real-Time Clock
13:41:33 CMOS Date Compare
13:41:33 CMOS Time Compare
13:41:34 CMOS Alarm Function
13:41:34 Installing RTC alarm handler.
13:41:34 Setting RTC alarm time to 13:41:40.
13:41:34 Waiting for 13:41:40...
13:41:34 Removing/restoring RTC alarm handler.
13:41:34 Restoring RTC alarm setting.
13:41:34 DMA Controller
13:41:34 8237 DMA controller X 2
11/22/2001 13:41:34 System Board Test * FAILED! *
13:41:34 [rv=4] Status updated.
11/22/2001 13:41:34 System Board Test * FAILED! *
13:41:34 Interrupt Controller
13:41:34 8259 IRQ controller X 2
13:41:35 [rv=4] System Board Test completed.
13:41:35 Opening C:\TSC\CHECKIT\TESTS\CKSYS.RPT for report.
13:41:35 [rv=4:FAILED - Errors Found!] Cycle 1 ended.
13:41:35 Program ended.
11/22/2001 13:41:35 System Board Test Exit.

[glc]

Reveal is long out of business and Opti stopped providing driver support. You can *try* these drivers - no guarantee......

ftp://ftp.diamondmm.com/pub/multimed...9/mm929w95.exe

If the machine runs fine, I wouldnt worry about diags.

[jash]

Cheers I'll try the sound link.

One further question.

I fdisked, etc: installed windows98SE, Ofiice 97: it works. This was with the faulty memory chip in place.

Now I've put the new memory in and installed Money 2000, which my friend wants to use. It failed to work before on his machine, but it still fails to work. It installs but then comes up with a series of problems when I try to run it.

Should I start all over again? The error messages point to problems with dll files. The first was MPIUE, so I copied that from my machine to the MONEY\SYSTEM folder; then it threw up MSOFD & OFDUTIL.

It seems very strange that a pretty clean install of Win98 can't handle Money.

Could the problem stem back to a faulty memory chip during the install?

[jash]

The sound driver was not accepted by Win98.

Do you think I should redo the whole thing - ie install Windows again?