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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: 4D/20 problem on boot
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1993Jan26.200605.22725@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 06:13:55 GMT
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- In <1993Jan26.200605.22725@news.media.mit.edu> testarne@liverpool.media.mit.edu (Thad E Starner) writes:
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- | Having a problem booting my 4D/20. One day, on startup it came up with the error
- | listed below. It's a 12Mhz, 12M RAM, 380M hard drive (Micropolis), old
- | GR1.1 run of the mill machine. The fault is pretty immediate and shows up on
- | console terminal (not screen). Would appreciate info on what this is, how to
- | fix it, or where/how much it would cost to get it serviced. Tried the trivial...
- | reseating SIMMS, checking for heat producing chips, reseating boards, shortening the SCSI path to the minimal (had a QIC150 on it) without luck.
- |
- | Console DUART test passed
- | Memory walking bit test
- | Exception at: BIC02724
- | Cause:0000401C
- | Status: 00580000
- | Bad Vaddr: FFFFFFF7
- | Parity Err: 000000AA
- | LIOStatus: 00000009
- | ErrorAddr: AAAAAAA8
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- Something is *seriously* wrong with your memory, or the data path
- to it. If you have more than one bank, try using only one bank,
- switching SIMMs one at a time to find the bad SIMM. If you only
- have one bank, you probably need to call the hotline.
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