3b1 crashing (kernel parity error)

Rex Fowler rmfowler at texrex.uucp
Sun Dec 2 13:54:58 AEST 1990


For quite some time I've been having system crashes.  I've scraped the
connectors, blew out the dust bunnies, checked the power supply and
reseated the CPU.  The error messages don't show up in /usr/adm/unix.log, 
they just come up on the console as the system crashes.

John Milton's hardware notes explain how to find a bad chip but my
error messages are not of the same format as his example.  I have no
idea which numbers correspond to his examples.  John, can you help me here?

Below is a typical error report I get.  If anyone can make any sense out
of this I would be very happy.  It would be even nicer if someone could
tell me WHICH chip was bad but I can't be greedy :^)


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*hpte:0x4008 <-- Processor ParityErr
type=0x1F,pid=0,pc=0x871A,rps=0x2008,p=0x4B3EC
GSR=DD00,BSR0=FC00,BSR1=871A PHYPSF=8
D0=2008,D1=2600,D2=80,D3=FFFFB1E0
D4=FFFFFC43,D5=FFFF0000,D6=1,D7=0
A0=51D58,A1=51D58,A2=0,A3=0
A4=0,A5=3000,A6=7085C,userA7=2FFF50/kernA7=70854
KI-RAM at 8714:67064AAE 000866B2 42B90002 17C008F9
KS-RAM at 70854:
	00002600 00002600 0007087C 0000BD8A FFFFFFF 00000007 0004B3EC 0002643C
	00428000 00003000 00070894 0000BA3C 0000050 26040000 0004B5AC 00000000

   panic: NMI(kernel parity error)

push hardware reset to reboot
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Additional info: 3b1, 2 meg on mother, Priam 519(equiv to Maxtor 2140)
		 P5.1, WD2010, 3.51m. 


Thanks for the help,

-- 
Rex Fowler <rmfowler%texrex at cirr.com>
UUCP:  egsner!texrex!rmfowler



More information about the Comp.sys.att mailing list