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Re: Hosed DSP264 system

Subject: Re: Hosed DSP264 system
From: Brad Lucier (lucier@math.purdue.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 2 09:38:08 2000


> > Lately, I've been having problems with the SRM boot process not getting
> > me to the boot prompt on a DP264 system with 2 processors and 2 Gbytes of
> > RAM. It seems that there may be memory subsystem problems similar to those
> > reported in
>
> So it's scrolling what looks like register dumps onto the screen?

Yes, they are register dumps.

> Have you
> left it until it's finished, ( which could take a while).

Yes, I think so. At some point the keyboard does not accept keystrokes.

> Or captured some
> via a serial console. The only reason I ask is that sometimes there's some
> useful info in there. (I have an old DP that will scroll PChip errors for
> about 1-2 minutes on powerup, then stop at the SRM prompt.

This is the key point; I never get the SRM prompt. The CPU module
error messages seem only to occur on a cold boot, and disappear with a
recycle. The memory errors seem hard.

On a related point, there is a reference in the AlphaServer
DS20E/AlphaStation DS20E Reference Guide (Order Numer: ER-K8F6W-UA.
D01), which I pulled off the web somewhere, to the "DS20E Service
Guide", which I could not find on the web. Is there any chance that
this could be made available somewhere?

Also, several documents/web pages pointed me to
http://www.digital.com/alphaoem, which seems no longer to exist, and
which also seemed to have lots of good technical info. Is this
information somewhere else on the web now?

Brad Lucier

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