Subject: RE: Multia diagnostic translation needed
To: 'Andrew Gillham' <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/08/2000 16:45:27
Sounds like you had a different problem than me. Mine is just then one
short, and I think it just might be the flash memory chips. I'm gonna try
calling CPUMicromart or some other places like that, try to find out what
parts are/might be bad. Then hand it over to my brother for the solder
work... He has a 166 of mine, that suffered Heat Death. He should be done
with it by now...
P.S. Thanks for the document links, but I have checked them all
before...except the ek-mults-in.ps.gz. I'll check it out now...
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> From: Andrew Gillham
> Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2000 4:18 PM
> To: David Woyciesjes
> Cc: '''port-alpha@netbsd.org' ' '
> Subject: Re: Multia diagnostic translation needed
>
> David Woyciesjes writes:
> > Yeah, I'll try the fail safe when I get home... The code for mine is
> > one long, one short, one long, one short, etc... Yours was 1 long, then
> 11
> > (or so?) short tones ( then repeated ) ?
>
> No tones on the 166 (at least not mine), but yes it some combination of a
> long flash and a certain number of short ones. :)
>
> > Hopefully it's not cache. Then I'd have to find out the specs, then
> > find a cache stick. Or maybe that might be better, compared to getting
> my
> > brother to resolder flash memory chips onto the board....
>
> Well, in my case it was the "Multia Heat Death" part that died, and it was
> a matter of finding a replacement, desoldering the old and installing the
> new. :) A simple matter for me as a friend of mine took care of the
> solder
> work. Those surface mount chips are tricky.
>
> Look at:
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/multiafaq.html#heat-death
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/dec-docs/ek-mults-in.ps.gz
>
> -Andrew
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