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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:23:13 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Source of "processor correctable error"?
Message-ID:  <20020402192313.A43540@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <a8chg1$11e$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:07:45PM %2B0000
References:  <a89rrl$2vek$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20020401152244.GE41357@cicely8.cicely.de> <a8chg1$11e$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:07:45PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> wrote:
> 
> > > Warning: received processor correctable error.
> > These are most likely main memory errors.
> 
> Indeed one of the SIMMs is bad.  Annoyingly this halves the amount
> of memory and the memory bus width in the box.
> 
> What are my chances of replacing the faulty SIMM?  Can I just
> substitute any other 72-pin FP-DRAM 8Mx36 (32MB ECC) 60ns SIMM, or
> are all modules required to be exactly alike?  SIMMs of this general
> type are still available at somewhat unreasonable prices I guess,
> but finding one that shares exactly the same organization and God
> knows what parameters seems unlikely.

In my experience: it tends to work, given decent SIMMs.

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