WTB: SGI Professional IRIS CPU / Help Needed

[Randy Dawson]

unseat and re-seat the DIMM modules?



> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:04:21 +0200
> From: mailinglists at lenerz.org
> To: cctech at classiccmp.org
> Subject: WTB: SGI Professional IRIS CPU / Help Needed
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm owner of a Professional IRIS 4D/50G made by Silicon Graphics some
> time around 1987. The machine has apparently some kind of trouble
> related to the CPU board. I'll include some details further below, I'm
> open to any good idea.
> 
> 
> Because of that problem I'm in search for a suitable CPU board. The
> failing board is a IP4 CPU board (part nr. 030-0121-001 Rev A). I
> presume that any kind of CPU board from a Professional IRIS line
> machine would help (mainly IP4 and IP4.5).
> 
> 
> 
> Please drop me a note if you have a spare or can point me in a
> promising direction.
> 
> 
> 
> As promised some details. The machine used to work fine once I had set
> it up quite a while ago. Recently it refused to boot and upon
> inspection I got the following error:
> 
> ---- snip ----
> EXCEPTION: <vector=NORMAL>
> Exception pc: 0xbfc108a0
> Cause register: 0x30001008<CE=3,IP5,EXC=RMISS>
> Status register: 0x80000<CM,IPL=8>
> Bad Vaddress: 0xc0000000
> Error Addr register: 0x17b40
> Local I/O interrupt register: 0xff <>
> Parity error register: 0x0
> Registers (in hex):
>   arg: c98cf600 ffffffff 15180 0
>   tmp: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   sve: a0017b93 bfc268c8 bfc268ca 1 54 0 1 800
>   t8 ff00 t9 502e8000 at 1 v0 c0000000 v1 f65da k1 bfc04234
>   gp 0 fp bfc04bd0 sp a0017b64 ra bfc10744
> exit(-1) called
> ---- snip ----
> 
> This happens just after POST (I think) when the machine is either
> about to start IRIX or to show the PROM menu. Of course nothing
> further happens except that the error is repeated without end.
> 
> I did strip the machine down to a bare minimum of boards (IP4 and
> Ethernet) and I also swapped the memory sticks. The only things I
> could reasonably pull in a last attempt would be the VME Ethernet
> board and the system disk.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gerhard
> 
> -- 
> http://www,sgistuff.net/
> 
 		 	   		  
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