From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 8 17:38:20 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 E498B37B401 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:38:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta05.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta05.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B794543EB2 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:38:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.67.234]) by mta05.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20021209013811.UGWB22339.mta05.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:38:11 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20021209114808.00a65ec0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: rbyrnes@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:28:33 +1100 To: Jan Lentfer From: Rob B Subject: Re: Memory Problems Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3DF0A1DC.21D99203@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 00:10 7/12/2002, Jan Lentfer sent this up the stick: >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: > >halted CPU0 >halt code = 5 >HAL instruction executed >PC = fffffc0000668448 >boot failure > > >If I put in the new chips with some of my older *known to work* chips >the booting just hangs at "Waiting 15 seconds..." forever. > >Now I don't know if the chips are bad (got them from ebay) or they just >don't work in my system. The chips are from Kingston: >KVR100X72C2L/256 256MB Low Profile PC100 ECC DIMM CL2 There is a setup guide at http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations/retired/auseries/index.html but it's a Windows self-extracting executable. I have put the doc up at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~robbyrnes/miata/ for your enjoyment and edification. cheers, Rob -- Entropy isn't what it used to be This is random quote 487 of a collection of 1265 Distance from the centre of the brewing universe: [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message