[wplug] Alpha issues, slightly OT

[Ben Beige]

ok went down to 1 pair same error on the from the front panel display
so I dug out my nullmodem cable and went to the console:



SROM V3.0 on cpu0

XSROM V5.4 on cpu0

BCache testing complete on cpu0

mem_pair0 -   64 MB

20..21..23..

please wait 3 seconds for T24 to complete

24..

Memory testing complete on cpu0


 to me the memory test seems to have been passed, but
 I'm not that  familiar w/ these



On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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Ben Beige
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