I have a Dec 2000 model 300 running Digital Unix 4.0D + patchset 3.
It has been giving me problems for the past few months. At
first it would just lock up. We would need to turn it off, and
back on to reboot it. There would be no errors anywhere.
Now it keeps crashing. The past few times, I get an error on the
screen:
Machine Check - Hardware error
Dump.prom: I/O error in SCSI 1 6 0 0 0 0 JANS-IO, block 262144
Dump : Failed to write initial header to primary swap 0x800001, err 5
It does not reboot by itself, and usually will not reboot on the
first try.
I get no errors in any of the log files - and no crash dump.
We have replaced the motherboard, the video board, the disk controller,
the ethernet board, the power supply, the mouse. We have tested the memory
and moved it around.
Does anyone have any ides on what the problem might be?
Why is it getting an error doing the crash dump?
Any assistance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Valerie Caro Computer Science Computing Facility,
valerie_at_cs.umass.edu LGRC Room A313,
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Received on Thu Mar 25 1999 - 21:59:27 NZST