From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 6 5:45:49 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 46A0A37B406 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 05:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from dove.penix.org (dove.penix.org [216.144.7.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465E443EC2 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 05:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dp@dove.penix.org) Received: from dove.penix.org (dp@localhost.nls.net [127.0.0.1]) by dove.penix.org (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gB6DjZmf066687; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:45:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dp@dove.penix.org) Received: from localhost (dp@localhost) by dove.penix.org (8.12.6/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id gB6DjZ62066684; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:45:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dp@dove.penix.org) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:45:35 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Halliday To: Jan Lentfer Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory Problems In-Reply-To: <3DF0A78E.B260C0DD@web.de> Message-ID: <20021206083651.C66664-100000@dove.penix.org> 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 On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Jan Lentfer wrote: > 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 hmm.. if they are the same as the alpha station 200 then viewing from the rear: (x) off (o) on oooo oxox Memory test 1 failure oooo oxxo Memory test 2 failure oooo oxxx Memory test 3 failure oooo xooo Memory test 4 failure .... ooxo ooox Memory test failed .... if all is well.. oooo ooxx Console initialized (ARC) ooox xoxo Console initialized (SRM) hope this helps. > > -- > 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 > > > Paul Halliday. http://dp.penix.org ------------------- "And so your god bungled his work deliberately, in order to tempt or test his creature - did he then not know, did he then not doubt what the result would be?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message