P1600 fails before post test

[Steve Black_1]

At power on the Compaq Proliant screen comes on, it finds memory of 384 meg, counts up to 16384 and then word "Initialize" is garbled on black & white screen
Sorry, I do not know enough to isolate what is causing the checking of memeory to continue

[Oleg Koroz]

Try to bring to minimum possibly Configuration with Original COMPAQ memory
Here is the links for PII and PII
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10034_na/10034_na.HTML
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10035_na/10035_na.HTML
see memory configuration from page

[Steve Black_1]

Thank you for your time, I replaced the 450 mhz cpu and unit is back and running, hope it stays up