Does a 250-4/266 w/ZLXp-L1 cause crashes for you too?

From: Dirk Grunwald <grunwald_at_cons.cs.colorado.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 22:38:17 -0600 (MDT)

I have a 250-4/266 system with a ZLXp-L1 graphics accelerator.

Every few days, the system hangs and we have to reset it. We have
other 250-4/266's that don't do this, and all fingers point to the
graphics card (which, I'm certain, now has some new name like
PowerRanger Graphics).

Has anyone had problems with this? I had decided to hang tight until
DU4.0 comes out, in the hope that it was a transitional driver bug,
but that's gettin' to look like a long-term proposition.

Our uerf reports the following about the system...


                                        AlphaStation 250 4/266 system
                                        DECchip 21071
                                        82378IB (SIO) PCI/ISA Bridge
                                        Firmware revision: 5.2
                                        PALcode: OSF version 1.35
....
                                        pvp0 at pci0 slot 12
                                        pvp0: cmd 0x7ce000 info 0x7be000 pmap
                                         _0x79e000 image 0x7be008
                                        pvp0: sram test (0 mismatches)
                                        pvp0: vram=4MP, ua=4x2, vp=1280x1024,
                                         _pms=16KP, pmc=256, id=ZLXp-L1
Received on Wed May 08 1996 - 06:54:10 NZST