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AST RESEARCH TECHNICAL BULLETIN TB-0145 11-25-85
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RAMPAGE CONFLICT WITH IBM PC I
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An incompatibility exists between the AST Rampage! product and
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the IBM PC-1 (with 64K motherboard). The problem has been
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isolated to those machines with the early ROM BIOS, which is
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dated 1981.
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The user will get a "PARITY CHECK 2" error as the machine is
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booting. The message appears on the screen as the REMM.SYS file
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is executing.
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One solution to this problem is the use of the "/X" option when
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configuring REMM.SYS file. The exact command should read as
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follows:
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DEVICE=REMM.SYS /X=8800-A000
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This will keep REMM from "looking at" RAM between the top of
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conventional memory (544K on the early PC's) and the 640K
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boundary, where REMM would normally start checking.
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Another solution to this problem is to obtain from IBM the ROM
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BIOS update kit. The "/X" part of the above command should not
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be used.
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