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- From: cary@esl.com (Cary Jamison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: 380 Problems solved
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 18:33:42 GMT
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- I finally solved a problem we've been having with our HP 9000/380s, so I
- though I'd share the information to any other interested parties.
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- We had the symptom that the CPU would just lock-up on us occasionally
- while running our large, fp intensive application. HP support claimed
- it must be something wrong in our application, and were unwilling to
- help.
-
- Recently I upgraded a 375 to a 380 and found that this newer version
- 380 did not have the same problem. I did some 68040 swapping and found
- that the hanging problem followed the older '040! So, we are now in the
- process of trying to get HP to replace all our bad 68040s (we have over 30
- of them).
-
- HP knew of a set of bad '040s that were installed in 380s, but ours were not
- part of that set. Apparently there have been other problems Motorola fixed
- in later versions of the chip that HP didn't know about. (Our 380s with the
- problem were received around July, '91).
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- * * Software is not years behind hardware - *
- * Cary Jamison * it is finding the limitations of current hardware *
- * cary@esl.com * and defining the needs of future hardware! *
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