From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 6 5:35:26 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 1113737B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 05:35:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp02.web.de [217.72.192.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3815543EA9 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 05:35:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Lentfer@web.de) Received: from [213.157.11.237] (helo=floundjan.homeip.net) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.93 #1) id 18KIdQ-0006dF-00; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:35:16 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id ED1943BD; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:35:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from web.de (neslonek.bio.tu-darmstadt.de [130.83.207.147]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id 0D6267; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:35:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3DF0A78E.B260C0DD@web.de> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:35:10 +0100 From: Jan Lentfer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p1 alpha) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Halliday Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory Problems References: <20021206082339.S66630-100000@dove.penix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 Paul Halliday wrote: > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Jan Lentfer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I bought two 256MB chips for my PWS 500. When I plug them in with no > > other memory chips on board, the kernel boots and goes through the > > booting till "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle". Then > > suddenly it jumps back to SRM and reports: > does the PWS 500 have diagnostic leds? These will quickly report which > banks are failing. Have you tried memtest from the console? It does have 8 leds left to the memory banks but I don't know how to read them. Jan -- Jan Lentfer System Administrator Molecular Cell Biology / AG Holstein, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schnittspahnstr. 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany Tel: +49 6151 16 5563 / Tel private: +49 6155 899393 / mobile: +49 163 4712037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message