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Re: 4D/20 problem on boot

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From: Dave Olson
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:13
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In <1993Jan26.200605.22725@news.media.mit.edu> testarne@liverpool.media.mit.edu (Thad E Starner) writes:

| Having a problem booting my 4D/20.  One day, on startup it came up with the error
| listed below.  It's a 12Mhz, 12M RAM, 380M hard drive (Micropolis),  old
| GR1.1 run of the mill machine.  The fault is pretty immediate and shows up on 
| console terminal (not screen).  Would appreciate info on what this is, how to
| fix it, or where/how much it would cost to get it serviced.  Tried the trivial...
| reseating SIMMS, checking for heat producing chips, reseating boards, shortening the SCSI path to the minimal (had a QIC150 on it) without luck.
| 
| Console DUART test passed
| Memory walking bit test
| Exception at: BIC02724
| Cause:0000401C
| Status: 00580000
| Bad Vaddr: FFFFFFF7
| Parity Err: 000000AA
| LIOStatus: 00000009
| ErrorAddr: AAAAAAA8

Something is *seriously* wrong with your memory, or the data path
to it.  If you have more than one bank, try using only one bank,
switching SIMMs one at a time to find the bad SIMM.  If you only
have one bank, you probably need to call the hotline.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
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