Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0?

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:50:28AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote:


dva0 is the floppy.

> 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
> > >
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