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- From: hmsee@usho98.hou281.chevron.com (M.R.Sees)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: DECstation 5000/240 FPU Failures
- Keywords: DEC 5000/240 FPU FAILURES
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.124126@usho98.hou281.chevron.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 18:41:26 GMT
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- -- In a note, Jay Ponder writes:
- >From: ponder@bcserv.wustl.edu (Ponder (Jay))
- >Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- >Subject: Anonymous ftp Site for 5000/240 FPU Test
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- >Maybe I'm naive, but I'm EXTREMELY PEEVED that DEC
- >apparently still has machines out there with this
- >problem. There is a hardware fix, an altered CPU
- >card that DEC gave us several weeks ago. I'm
- >AMAZED that DEC has not "quietly" replaced the
- >CPU on the early 240's with the fix. The FPU error
- >can, in our experience, range from very, very
- >slight to obvious. It certainly can vary from
- >machine to machine. This is a VERY, VERY serious
- >problem (we were lucky and only lost three months
- >of computations) -- please test your 240's if
- >you haven't yet! And demand repair if they are
- >faulty....
- >
- > Jay W. Ponder
- > Asst. Prof, Biochem & Mol Biophys
- > Washington Univ. Med School
- > ponder@comet.wustl.edu
- > (314) 362-4195
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-
- Note...I received a letter from DEC's Workstations & Servers
- Group today admitting to the DecStation 5000 Model 240 FPU
- problems. The letter states that DEC will (at no cost to the
- customer) replace the daughter board on all units shipped prior
- to August, 1992 and that a field rep will be contacting owners shortly.
- DEC's goal is to replace all modules within 8 months.
-
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