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First post, by ints99

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Hi, any suggestions?

There is the following problem on an otherwise clean (no battery damage + battery replaced) motherboard:

After about 10 minutes of use, Check-it 3.0 starts reporting DMA problem "Controller #1 failure" etc.
It seems that with more time, the error also starts to be more specific (also error on controller #2; specific DMA channels reported as failed...).

The total memory of the 1MB (4 pcs of SIMM, 70ns) seems to give slightly less errors, the 4MB -80 and -70ns SIMMs will trigger it faster (if not immediately).

Assuming I've tested it with a 3 or 4 different sets of SIMMs and basically just the CPU and Headland HT12/A chips are on board - should I assume that either the CPU or the HT12/A needs to be replaced to fix it?

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Reply 1 of 2, by Horun

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You probably should be running 60nS SIMMS or increase wait states in BIOS since the cpu is running at 20mhz, as a test to see if it is truly ram related.....just a thought

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