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Article #134Re: Information for VAX4000-200 Customers
From: Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:05
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:05
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In article <27AUG199214251690@vxcrna.cern.ch>, kassapidis@vxcrna.cern.ch (Kassapidis Panayotis, CERN) writes: > My local DEC representative came and installed some FPU-checking > program on our VAX 4000-200, that supposedly checks the floating > point chip for the above mentioned problem. When I asked for an > upgrade she said 'No need to, since FPU_TEST hasn't discovered any > errors'. > Am I right to believe that no matter what, I can get my CPU board > (my VAX's CPU not my brain! :-)) upgraded, even if FPU_TEST hasn't > so far discovered this problem? Should I "demand" for the CPU > upgrade??? If you have one of the affected systems (meaning it was built before the cut-off date) you should have the module replaced whether or not you are currently experiencing problems. The problem is related to environmental conditions, so if you move the system to a warmer room you may start to see faults. Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!spcvxb.spc.edu!terry From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) Newsgroups: comp.org.decus,vmsnet.misc,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Information for VAX4000-200 Customers Message-ID: <1992Aug27.190541.3706@spcvxb.spc.edu> Date: 27 Aug 92 23:05:41 GMT References: <1992Aug26.065516.187@kahuna.asd-yf.wpafb.af.mil> <27AUG199214251690@vxcrna.cern.ch> Organization: St. Peter's College, US Lines: 20