Subject: Re: LX164 gets machine check
To: Dee Turner <dee294ever@earthlink.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/15/2000 20:18:51
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:54:22 -0800 
 "Dee Turner" <dee294ever@earthlink.net> wrote:

 > I loaded NetBSD on my LX164-based machine this past weekend. The install was
 > fast and virtually effortless! Unfortunately, I've never been able to boot
 > NetBSD and have it run for more than a couple of minutes before experiencing
 > a machine check. The information printed on the SRM console is as follows:
 > 
 > halted CPU 0
 > 
 > halt code = 7
 > machine check while in PAL mode
 > PC = 1c6b8

Yuck!  This smells to me of bad hardware... bad memory maybe?

 > Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Is there anything I
 > can do to further investigate and identify the problem?
 > 
 > Any help would be much appreciated!
 > 
 > Ron Turner

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>