I'm sorry to say that I'm not entirely sure this is an OSF/1 related problem,
but we are having frequent crashes on our Alpha "clones" from Nekotech
(MachII board) with PCI/ISA slots and OSF/1 v3.2B. I suspect that this may be
a PCI bus problem, since during bootup we get a "... interrupt not routed for
slot X" message (X is the slot of the ATI Mach64 graphics card). The crash
causes the system to go into console mode with the message "Hardware Error".
What confuses me is that of the 3 systems we have tried, one has never crashed,
while the others crash frequently during network or disk access. The machine
which hasn't crashed differs from the others (as far as I can tell) only in the
slot the graphics card is in (board slot 7 instead of 6). I hope someone
with a similar configuration can help me or provide some suggestions about
what to try next.
Thanks,
Marinos
PS. I didn't include a more precise description of the crash messages and
configuration because I'm not sure it should be sent to everyone.
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>>>> Marinos Yannikos (nino_at_mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at) <<<<
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Received on Wed Aug 23 1995 - 12:07:56 NZST