Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it wrote:

> 
> Hello friends.
> I am suffering of machine check problems...
> I have an alphastation 255/233MHz 96MB RAM.
> I had installed FreeBSD and replaced it with NetBSD and still have machine
> check problems.
> The last one occured while a make index in pkgsrc.
> the vector is ALWAYS 0x670
> I guess it might be something like a memory ECC error related.
> Anyway I Replaced all the simm modules and still I have the error so the
> eventually memory error is not due to the modules itself but to something
> else I cannot figure out.
> Anyone could help me telling me if there is some way to fix this ??
> Sometimes the offending command is make or tar or even the swap process
> (process id 0) and the vector always 0x670.

From a list posted here a while ago:

670     Processor Uncorrectable   unrecoverable cache or TLB errors, or
                                  read of a non-existent I/O space

Unfortunately, it sounds a little more serious than bad ram...

Simon.
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