From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 18 1:51: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E556437B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (osh202-181.broadacre.com [66.54.202.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDC943EA9 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:50:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (localhost.scoundrelz.net [127.0.0.1]) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9I8oSLL042716; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 03:50:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from localhost (hemi@localhost) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g9I8oSh2042713; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 03:50:28 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: view.scoundrelz.net: hemi owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 03:50:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Tolbert To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0? In-Reply-To: <20021018034632.E42572-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> Message-ID: <20021018035005.S42646-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Oh, yeah...Something else. It's actuall dva0 that I use to try to boot from the hard drive. Does that sound fishy? Thanks, Josh On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Josh Tolbert wrote: > Hi Andrew, > I tried booting from IDE immediately after the power-on, but got > the same result every time I tried. > The exact machine error is a "660 Machine Check," which from my > searching indicates a memory error. Can anyone verify this, and if so is > there any way to determine if the problem is board-related or > memory-related without swapping the RAM around? I don't have too many EDO > ECC SIMMs laying around. > Also, is there any place (besides ebay) to find something like a > UP1000 Alpha motherboard for a reasonable price? > > Thanks, > Josh > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > Have you tried power-cycling the box before attempting to boot? > > > > On some machines (my up1000 for example), IDE works great the first > > time after a cold boot, and then fails upon reboot. (I just get the > > timeout messages, not a machine check). FWIW, I think we're not > > putting something back the way SRM likes it. > > > > Drew > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message