Thanks a lot for your very usefull help.
Do you think it could be due t osome thing related to overheating ??
thanks so much.

Rick


On Wed, 2 May 2001, Simon Burge wrote:

> Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 17:05:09 +1000
> From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
> To: Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it
> Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: machien check problems.
>
> 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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