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Date:      Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:28:33 +1100
From:      Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>
To:        Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Memory Problems
Message-ID:  <5.1.1.6.2.20021209114808.00a65ec0@127.0.0.1>
In-Reply-To: <3DF0A1DC.21D99203@web.de>

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At 00:10 7/12/2002, Jan Lentfer sent this up the stick:
>Hi all,
>
>I bought two 256MB chips for my PWS 500. When I plug them in with no
>other memory chips on board, the kernel boots and goes through the
>booting till "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle". Then
>suddenly it jumps back to SRM and reports:
>
>halted CPU0
>halt code = 5
>HAL instruction executed
>PC = fffffc0000668448
>boot failure
>
>
>If I put in the new chips with some of my older *known to work* chips
>the booting just hangs at "Waiting 15 seconds..." forever.
>
>Now I don't know if the chips are bad (got them from ebay) or they just
>don't work in my system. The chips are from Kingston:
>KVR100X72C2L/256  256MB Low Profile PC100 ECC DIMM CL2


There is a setup guide at 
http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations/retired/auseries/index.html 
but it's a Windows self-extracting executable.

I have put the doc up at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~robbyrnes/miata/ 
for your enjoyment and edification.

cheers,
Rob




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