....well, that's what it feels like not beeing able to use my faithfull PC.
Tried using it last night and some really strange stuff ocurred on boot-up.
Rather than the normal full screen Dell logo, I got information about my BIOS and processor with a "hit DEL to enter set up". Unfortunately, neither the mouse nor keyboard had been detected so all I could do was wait.
Low and behold, the screen went blank, followed by the following error :
PCI Parity error on BUS/Device/Function on 00080h (or sometimes ooooh).
The messages was randomly jumping accross the screen which worried me a tad.
I am no expert but guessed this may be a hardware fault, so re-seated my RAM and checked that the processor, fan (which is working fine)and all slots and leads were in properly.
On one of my trillion attempts, it did fully boot and load windows. Not wanting to count my chickens, I shut- down and tried again.
Since then, no joy though, just get the same message.
I am running a Dell Dimension XPS 500, with 384 MB ram (3 x PC 100 mhz 128 MB), and Intel PIII 500 processor.
Any ideas you nice people ?
Tried using it last night and some really strange stuff ocurred on boot-up.
Rather than the normal full screen Dell logo, I got information about my BIOS and processor with a "hit DEL to enter set up". Unfortunately, neither the mouse nor keyboard had been detected so all I could do was wait.
Low and behold, the screen went blank, followed by the following error :
PCI Parity error on BUS/Device/Function on 00080h (or sometimes ooooh).
The messages was randomly jumping accross the screen which worried me a tad.
I am no expert but guessed this may be a hardware fault, so re-seated my RAM and checked that the processor, fan (which is working fine)and all slots and leads were in properly.
On one of my trillion attempts, it did fully boot and load windows. Not wanting to count my chickens, I shut- down and tried again.
Since then, no joy though, just get the same message.
I am running a Dell Dimension XPS 500, with 384 MB ram (3 x PC 100 mhz 128 MB), and Intel PIII 500 processor.
Any ideas you nice people ?
