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- From: ian@falcon.Centric.Com (Ian Macky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: 4D/440 with 256M of memory?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.001410.1905@centric.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 00:14:10 GMT
- Sender: usenet@centric.com
- Organization: Centric Engineering Systems
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- Has anyone out there with a 4D/440 had problems getting their machine to run
- with the full 256M of memory? Ours works fine with 128M but panics with 256M.
- Sometimes in an hour, sometimes it takes a day, but it never stays up.
-
- Field service has replaced: backplane, memory board, power supply, I/O
- board. Only thing left is the CPU boards themselves which aren't suspect.
- Actually, they just put in a different I/O board to see, and when it didn't
- make any difference they put the old one back in.
-
- FS claims that 4D series machine like this are often NOT QA'd at 256M at
- all, just tried out at 128M and then shipped. The 3rd party memory makers
- claimed it was a backplane problem which is being kept quiet. We gave up
- on the 3rd party stuff and purchased the grossly overpriced SGI-blessed
- memory which was no better.
-
- We have been thrashing on this problems for months now with no end in sight.
- Arrrgh!!! My users are pissed off about this since it's our main machine.
-
- Insights, anyone?
-
- --ian
- ian@centric.com
-