What does this mean "Error: MCB damaged"

[amscollecting]

Bought 2 new boards. Xcess model # S7-MPV3.
Can't get the boards to access the A drive. All jumpers are set correctly. When trying to use Maxtor Blast HD utililty get this message
Error: MCB damaged
When using EZ Drive says can't load WDEZ.bin. It then continues and says Fatal Error press any Key.
With Partition Magic the A drive starts to read and then Freezes and I have to do a cold start because CTRL-ALT-BREAK won't reboot. This is a first not being able to access the A: drive. Any suggestions. Thanks

[BBA]

Ok, sounds like a bad boot floppy, and that I believe is one of the system files the MaxBlast floppy is built on.

Control + ALT + DELETE is what makes a PC reboot!

BBA

[amscollecting]

I thought the same thing. Have used three different versions of each utility. A total of 9 different floppies, and the system will still not allow access to the a: prompt. What would you try next?

[SB]

I believe MCB has something to with memory. If you have other memory, you could try with them/it.

[amscollecting]

SB,

Using SDRAM 32M. Tried a 64 Meg stick. Even pulled mem. from working system. Still no progress. I'm sorta wondering if I could have gotten 2 bad boards at one time.
Let me give a better description: Every item in the system which are :Video, Memory, HD, Keyboard, CPU, Mouse, Floppy, floppy cable, ide cable, and even the Pwr Supply will work with a different board than these 2 new ones. I'm trying to get up and running with 1 of the new ones. I'm at a dead end and will try anything else. Thanks again.
Rudy

[BBA]

I take it your trying it bare neccessities? Floppy, mem, drive, cpu and vid, right?

Check the bios settings for any usage of IRQ's and resources.

Turn off all vid cacheing/shadowing. Turn off VGA use irq.

Then try with default settings.

If you got two boards from the same line, they copuld be from a bad batch also.

Good Luck.

[amscollecting]

Got some news on the MCB ERROR. It seems the manual was wrong. Tech support did a jumper completly different from the manual. Board seems to work fine now. Thanks for all the suggestions on trying to fix what the manufacturer actually wrong. Thanks again.

Rudy