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Failures accessing or initializing base (conventional) memory

Explanation: A failure of some sort was encountered either initializing or testing the first 1 MB of system memory.

Diagnosis: The first bank of memory probably has a bad memory chip in it somewhere. It is possible that there is a failure related to the motherboard or a system device as well.

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