[wplug] Alpha issues, slightly OT

[Tom Rhodes]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:50:31 -0400
"Ben Beige" <dariuscardren at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> I'm not quite to the point where this is on topic, but I'm not finding
> much help out there in my searches.
> I was given a DEC AlphaServer 1200 (single 533mhz processor) by a
> co-worker, which I am thinking of
> installing Debian or Gentoo on. But I've hit a snag before getting to
> that point. It seems that the CPU is
> unable to contact the PCI Bus, I get the following error:
> 
> P0 TEST 5 IOD0

It *only* says that?  There isn't anything like:

"failed power-up selft test"?

I'd start by pulling the memory and trying just one of
them at a time.  See if you get the error then.

-- 
Tom Rhodes