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Article #486Sickly 3670
From: Tim Bradshaw
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:00
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I have a 3670 which has become ill. When powered on it either fails completely to wake up (fault light stays on, screen never lights), or it gets to the FEP prompt, but when doing Initialize Hardware Tables it says one or both of `Checkword error in Datapath' or `Checkword error in Sequencer'. And of course it won't boot after that (it gets as far as starting to load the world, but then says something about memory errors (VM error? I'm not quite sure). I've replaced the CPU (datapath, memory control, sequencer) with known good cards (they work in a 3640). I haven't replaced the FEP or IO cards (I'm not sure they're compatible with a 3640?) The disk definitely works (tried two). I suspect that it may be trouble with the backplane somehow -- it's alsways been a bit sensitive to having the cardcage disturbed -- but I've reseated all the cards a good few times with no luck. Perhaps some other card is hurting the backplane: is this possible? I've tried it with only a minimal set cards in, and with several different memory cards. The supply voltages look OK to me. So I don't know what to do now other than junk it -- can anyone help? (I'm not completely convinced I'm subscribed to this mailing list (I have tried!) so if anyone has ideas could you CC to me as well.) Thanks! --tim
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10077e,2a9cc3750da2c7b5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10077e,public From: Tim Bradshaw <tfb@aiai.ed.ac.uk> Subject: Sickly 3670 Date: 1996/10/31 Message-ID: <846777976.21266@news.Colorado.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 193473152 distribution: cu sender: daemon@lace.colorado.edu x-note1: message-id generated by recnews x-note2: mail msgid was <199610311527.PAA09133@staffa.aiai.ed.ac.uk> organization: University of Colorado at Boulder newsgroups: cu.slug