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Re: Suspicious SGI O2 console error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Jul 19 15:24:39 2001
Message-Id: <200107191924.PAA20651@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:39:05 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:24:36 -0400
This is almost certainly a hardware issue, not a software one. OTOH,
if you only get the error once you can probably ignore it. FWIW, I
have seen this sort of error on pre-9.0 SGIs that are having hardware
issues.
Jonathon
> not-for-reuse, my O2, took the 9.0.11 autoupdate this afternoon. It was
> running the xlogin screensaver and the following just appeared on the console.
> I have no justification for saying it's related to 9.0.11, in fact, it suggests
> hardware trouble to me, but I've never seen it before, and if someone else
> does, we should worry:
>
> 21:33 MEMORY Error/Addr 0x940000<SOFT ECC ERROR ON READ during CPU ACCESS>: 0x7e4e000
> 21:33 ALERT: Soft ECC Error in back side of DIMM Slot 3, check bit 15
> 21:33 Jul 18 21:33:06 1A:not-for-reuse unix: |$(0x37)ALERT: Soft ECC Error in back side of DIMM Slot 3, check bit 15
> 21:33 [ESP System Information Notification]:"ALERT: Soft ECC Error in back side of DIMM Slot 3, check bit 15"
>
> Mitch
