Thanks for the quick replies. They confirmed my suspicions of
a hardware problem. I will arrange to get the hardware doctor
to investigate.
Thanks again.
Sophia
The responses:
a)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:45:18 -0700
From: alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.)
Status: RO
Machine checks are hardware problems of some sort. It could
be the CPU, the data paths, the memory controller, something
close to the CPU in the I/O path, etc. Definately hardware
though.
b)
>From belonis_at_dirac.phys.washington.edu Fri Feb 20 18:45:39 1998
From: Jim Belonis <belonis_at_dirac.phys.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:45:20 -0800 (PST)
Your cpu BOARD is dead or something equally serious.
I would make sure I ran whatever tests are available at the console prompt.
(I don't remember what command that might be on a DEC machine).
Power cycle everything. Open the chassis and pull and re-insert any
connectors and boards you can inside and outside.
Reduce to a minimal system (just the original memory and a CDROM drive).
If none of that works, call Digital (or Compaq).
=====
My Question was:
=>
=>Hello
=>
=>We have a DECalpha 3000/700, with 128mb memory, running OSF v3.0.
=>It crashed and I cannot boot either from disk or distribution CD.
=>Here's what I get booting from CD:
=>
=> ======
=>
=> **** System Machine Check Abort has occurred ****
=>
=>PC = 00079924
=>PS = 00000000.0016FE66
=>MCHK+000 = 00000000.000001E0
=>MCHK+008 = 000001A0.00000110
=>MCHK+010 = 00000001.0000008E
=>MCHK+018 = 00000000.00104000
=>MCHK+020 = 000005F8.00000004
=>MCHK+028 = 00000000.0005AD2C
=>MCHK+030 = 00000000.00000003
=>MCHK+038 = 00000000.00000000
=>0=FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFF3
=>MCHK+088 = 00000000.00000007
=>MCHK+090 = 00000000.00001400
=>MCHK+098 = 00000000.00007400
=>MCHK+0A0 = 00000000.00121068
=>
=> ======
=>The machine then just hangs.
=>
=>On trying again, i get the same numbers except for the last four
=>lines.
=>
=>Is the CPU dead or is it something else?
=>Any pointers on where to look, etc would be appreciated.
=>
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