Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0?

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:43:30PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:48:22AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote:
> 
> EDO RAM??
> 
> I'm 99% sure this box uses FPM ECC RAMS, not EDO.

It's designed to run with FPM ECC PS/2 Simms at 70ns.
But it shouldn't matter if you plug in EDO Simms as the chipsset can't
interleave - the board is single banked anyway.

BTW - I had a test installation on IDE 1-2 years ago on my PC164.
So yes - it should boot FreeBSD from IDE.

> > 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.

Having all Simms of the same size is not enough.
All Simms must be of the same internal organisation.

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