From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Apr 27 10:25:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from postino.fi.infn.it (postino.fi.infn.it [192.84.145.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 411AC37B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:25:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it) Received: from nikita.fi.infn.it (nikita.fi.infn.it [192.84.146.189]) by postino.fi.infn.it (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3RHP7m68486; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:25:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it Received: by nikita.fi.infn.it (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 18E3E18CE7; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:25:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nikita.fi.infn.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B2315919; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:25:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:25:06 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: To: Paul Halliday Cc: , Subject: Re: problem with AlphaServer 1000 In-Reply-To: <3AE97304.82995167@penix.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I did not install really anything. The machine just dies without a reason or even an error or machine check. After the death it tryes to restart it gives a "machine check while in PAL mode". IT had OpenVMS before and was online since months... I even updated the firmware before installing FreeBSD... so I Am kinda clueless about what the reason of this problem could be... thanks Rick On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Paul Halliday wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:24:20 -0400 > From: Paul Halliday > To: Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it > Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: problem with AlphaServer 1000 > > Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it wrote: > > > > I have an AlphaServer 1000 4/266. > > While I Was kinda succesfull with AlphaStation, > > with the AlphaServer I have big problem. > > After a few minutes hte system is on it get blocked suddently. > > The screen becomes black and after several minutes the system halts > > and tries to reboot but it the nhalts definitely with the message: > > machine check while in PAL mode. > > > > How to fix this problem ??? > > > > thanks > > > > Rick > > Have you actually tried to install anything at this point or is the > machine just dying? > > -- > Paul Halliday > Carpenter, Electrician. > http://dp.penix.org > Lesson of the week: dropping your PDA on a concrete floor is a bad > thing. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message