All,

I have an ultra60 that came with 4x64MB in Bank 1 and 4x32MB in bank 3
(rendering bank 3 offline since one stick was not being recognized). I
got hte machine jumpstarted 2 days ago, then last night decided to
replace the bad stick and add another bank of 32MB SIMMs since I had
them lying around.

I noticed that the new (3rd) bank of memory was physically hot to the
touch, so I pulled it out.

Now I get the following; the banner shows 384MB of memory, but when I
try to boot the machine off disk, it just hangs; when I try to boot it
off the network, I get the following:

{0} ok boot net
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
4200

And it just stops at 4200; doesn't count any higher.

I also noticed that with diag-level set to max, when the ECC/etc tests
are being run, the INFO lines report 0MB in bank 1 and 128MB in bank 3,
but then after POST, the machine seems to see all 384MB.

Any ideas what, if anything, I fried? I'm going to try some more
diagnostics (moving memory to different banks, etc) when I get home from
work, but any pointers would be very helpful.

(And Rich, this means NNTP is working again [for now], so I don't have
to bug you so much )

Thanks,

--
Coy Hile
hile@cse.psu.edu

It seems like one of memory stick keep make problem.

You may need to turn on "diag-switch?" as "true" to see more detail
information.

If you can available any console terminal as like a Hyper term or Wyse it
would be the best way to
See all Post Diagnostic messages and find out which one keep makes trouble.

Solar


"Coy Hile" <hile@cse.psu.edu> wrote in message
news:cl5q63$2fb$1@neuromancer.cse.psu.edu...
> All,
>
> I have an ultra60 that came with 4x64MB in Bank 1 and 4x32MB in bank 3
> (rendering bank 3 offline since one stick was not being recognized). I
> got hte machine jumpstarted 2 days ago, then last night decided to
> replace the bad stick and add another bank of 32MB SIMMs since I had
> them lying around.
>
> I noticed that the new (3rd) bank of memory was physically hot to the
> touch, so I pulled it out.
>
> Now I get the following; the banner shows 384MB of memory, but when I
> try to boot the machine off disk, it just hangs; when I try to boot it
> off the network, I get the following:
>
> {0} ok boot net
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> 4200
>
> And it just stops at 4200; doesn't count any higher.
>
> I also noticed that with diag-level set to max, when the ECC/etc tests
> are being run, the INFO lines report 0MB in bank 1 and 128MB in bank 3,
> but then after POST, the machine seems to see all 384MB.
>
> Any ideas what, if anything, I fried? I'm going to try some more
> diagnostics (moving memory to different banks, etc) when I get home from
> work, but any pointers would be very helpful.
>
> (And Rich, this means NNTP is working again [for now], so I don't have
> to bug you so much )
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Coy Hile
> hile@cse.psu.edu

In article <cl5q63$2fb$1@neuromancer.cse.psu.edu>, Coy Hile <hile@cse.psu.edu> writes:
> All,
>
> I have an ultra60 that came with 4x64MB in Bank 1 and 4x32MB in bank 3
> (rendering bank 3 offline since one stick was not being recognized). I
> got hte machine jumpstarted 2 days ago, then last night decided to
> replace the bad stick and add another bank of 32MB SIMMs since I had
> them lying around.
>
> I noticed that the new (3rd) bank of memory was physically hot to the
> touch, so I pulled it out.
>
> Now I get the following; the banner shows 384MB of memory, but when I
> try to boot the machine off disk, it just hangs; when I try to boot it
> off the network, I get the following:
>
> {0} ok boot net
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> 4200
>
> And it just stops at 4200; doesn't count any higher.
>
> I also noticed that with diag-level set to max, when the ECC/etc tests
> are being run, the INFO lines report 0MB in bank 1 and 128MB in bank 3,
> but then after POST, the machine seems to see all 384MB.
>
> Any ideas what, if anything, I fried? I'm going to try some more
> diagnostics (moving memory to different banks, etc) when I get home from
> work, but any pointers would be very helpful.
>
> (And Rich, this means NNTP is working again [for now], so I don't have
> to bug you so much )
>
> Thanks,
>

Hi,
have never seen that non-existing memory is reported.
You certainly have fried the memory controller.

--
Michael Tosch
IT Specialist
HP Managed Services
Technology Solutions Group
Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Phone: +49 2407 575 313
Mail: michael.tosch:hp.com

Just an update, I pulled the 4x64 out (that had been somewhat flaky when
I first got the machine). Now the machine boots and such just fine with
4x32 in bank 3. It's entirely possible that I fried bank 1, but I
think it was the 64MB sticks since putting them into bank 3 had POST
fail saying it coudln't find any memory.

Thanks for all your suggestions.

--
Coy Hile
hile@cse.psu.edu