Ben Kamen wrote:

>I'm getting an Evil 185 error on my 43p-240.
>
>After looking through the IBM Service documentation for the Model 240,
>I've determined that the 185 is probably one of the most evil errors on
>can get since the manual doesn't have a direct cause for it. (not like,
>"bad RAM" or failed floppy) It's the "start changing out stuff in your
>system until it goes away" error.
>
>
>So I thought I would ask if anyone here has ever experienced such an
>error and if they'd share with me what they found was causing it.
>
>
>Here's my system config:
>================================================= ===================
>43p-240 233MHz (with both CPU's installed)
>256MB Memory (64x4 IBM legit DIMMs)
>IBM 4.somethingGB SCSI internal HDisk
>IBM #2408 (FRU93H8406) PCI SingleEnded SCSI-FW
>IBM GXT-255
>IBM PCI 10/100 Ethernet
>
>Externally, I have connected a bunch of drives and a Cybernetics
>(Exabyte 10H) library. But I get the error with all that stuff
>disconnected from the system anyway.

I've experienced a couple of times 180 and 185 errors on 7013-5xx series
systems. On one occasion it was a faulty memory carrier and on the other a
faulty CPU planar.

So going by that, you could try swapping out some of the DIMMs or one of the
CPUs.


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