Thanks go to
John Becker, Panther and especially to Kurt Carlson, Dr Tom Blinn,
William Magill
In regards to my initial problem.....
Matthew Pearce wrote:
>
> I have this recurring problem on a 4100A. It gives the same error
every
> time.
> Is the box about to explode or what???
> Has anyone else seen this error, or know what causes it. Last night it
> occurred
> 8 times in the space of about 10minutes. It seemed to occur just after
a
> tape backup
> had completed (which took about 1 hour and finished about 1:10am). The
> databases
> were shutdown at about 11:30pm and not brought up again until about
2am.
> The flood
> of CPU errors occurred between 1:10-1:20am at which time there was
> processing on
> large database files.
>
> ********************************* ENTRY 298.
> *********************************
>
> ----- EVENT INFORMATION -----
>
> EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
> OS EVENT TYPE 100. CPU EXCEPTION
> SEQUENCE NUMBER 51.
> OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
> OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Fri Dec 19 01:20:52 1997
> OCCURRED ON SYSTEM star
> SYSTEM ID x00050016
> SYSTYPE x00000000
>
> ----- UNIT INFORMATION -----
>
> UNIT CLASS CPU
I found through DEC Event (as suspected by some of you) that I was
getting single bit correctable errors,
which related to memory problems. Although these errors are correctable
and not too serious at this stage
they can get worse and cause System Panics. I have since had a Digital
Engineer come and diagnose that
the memory board was faulty causing the CPU Exception errors. It's under
warranty so I'm getting it replaced.
Thanks to all those who gave their time!
MATTHEW PEARCE
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
mailto:matthew.pearce_at_star.com.au
Received on Mon Dec 22 1997 - 23:21:41 NZDT