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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:43:30 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Josh Tolbert <hemi@scoundrelz.net>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0?
Message-ID:  <20021018134330.B43173@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20021018034632.E42572-100000@view.scoundrelz.net>; from hemi@scoundrelz.net on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:48:22AM -0500
References:  <15790.54958.628923.428888@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20021018034632.E42572-100000@view.scoundrelz.net>

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:48:22AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote:

EDO RAM??

I'm 99% sure this box uses FPM ECC RAMS, not EDO.

> Hi Andrew,
> 	I tried booting from IDE immediately after the power-on, but got
> the same result every time I tried.
> 	The exact machine error is a "660 Machine Check," which from my
> searching indicates a memory error. Can anyone verify this, and if so is
> there any way to determine if the problem is board-related or
> memory-related without swapping the RAM around? I don't have too many EDO
> ECC SIMMs laying around.
> 	Also, is there any place (besides ebay) to find something like a
> UP1000 Alpha motherboard for a reasonable price?
> 
> Thanks,
> Josh
> 
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> >
> > Have you tried power-cycling the box before attempting to boot?
> >
> > On some machines (my up1000 for example), IDE works great the first
> > time after a cold boot, and then fails upon reboot.  (I just get the
> > timeout messages, not a machine check).  FWIW, I think we're not
> > putting something back the way SRM likes it.
> >
> > Drew
> >
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