SUMMARY: Hardware Errors on AS4100

From: Morningstar1, Bob <Bob.Morningstar1_at_aopa.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:27:10 -0500

Turns out one of the 256MB memory cards was defective (we have 1GB total).

Thanks for the info.

Bob

Original message follows:

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I received a great deal of error messages this past Sunday in
/var/adm/messages like the following:

Jan 17 18:03:45 harrell vmunix: WARNING: too many Processor corrected errors
det
ected on cpu 0. Reporting suspended.


When I did the "dia -R | more", I got this:


DECevent V2.3
******************************** ENTRY 1 ********************************
Logging OS 2. Digital UNIX
System Architecture 2. Alpha
Event sequence number 107.
Timestamp of occurrence 17-JAN-1999 18:03:45
Host name harrell

System type register x00000016 AlphaServer 4000 Series
Number of CPUs (mpnum) x00000002
CPU logging event (mperr) x00000000

Event validity 1. O/S claims event is valid
Event severity 3. High Priority
Entry type 100. CPU Machine Check Errors

CPU Minor class 3. Bcache error (630 entry)
stdin
System Revision x00000000

Machine Check Reason x0086 Alpha Chip Detected ECC Err, From
B-Cache
                                     (Registers Contain Invalid Data)
                                     (NO Correctable Errors in EI STAT)

Ext Interface Status Reg xFFFFFFF004FFFFFF
                                     Register Contents Not Valid For This
Error
Ext Interface Address Reg xFFFFFF00395FAB3F
                                     Register Contents Not Valid For This
Error
Fill Syndrome Reg x00000000000000F4
                                     Register Contents Not Valid For This
Error
Interrupt Summary Reg x0000000100200000
                                     Register Contents Not Valid For This
Error
WHOAMI x00000000 Register Contents Not Valid For This
Error

--IOD REGISTERS FOLLOW--
Base Addr of Bridge x0000000000000000
                                     Register Contents Not Valid For This
Error
Dev Type & Rev Register x00000000 Register Contents Not Valid For This
Error
MC Error Info Register 0 x00000000 Register Contents Not Valid For This
Error
MC Error Info Register 1 x00000000 Register Contents Not Valid For This
Error

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