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>