From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 18 7: 3:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D79D37B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 07:03:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B2343E42 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 07:03:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9IE3jFu043427; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:03:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9IE3jL7043426; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:03:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:03:45 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Josh Tolbert , Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0? Message-ID: <20021018160345.A43412@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <15790.54958.628923.428888@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20021018034632.E42572-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> <20021018134330.B43173@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20021018130729.GJ465@cicely8.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021018130729.GJ465@cicely8.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:07:29PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:07:29PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:43:30PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > 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. > > It's designed to run with FPM ECC PS/2 Simms at 70ns. > But it shouldn't matter if you plug in EDO Simms as the chipsset can't > interleave - the board is single banked anyway. A couple of my colleagues were responsible for qualing/sourcing RAMs. They told me, and had data to prove it, that ALphas can be quite picky for their memory. Trying other memory might be a good idea. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message