> Same uneducated guess I had, BUT ( that word pops up a lot, doesn't it?)
> on my properly working 166. between the CPU and drive cage ( which I
> haven't seen yet! :-) ... ) are the same chips. Which throws me off a
> little. It said it expected AMD or Intel? The same flash files worked fine
> on the 166... maybe I'll have to compare the chips on the two boards? 
> 
> CPU speed --- first time I booted off of the fail safe disk, it reported
> properly -- 233, which is the jumper setting. On the second and third
> attempts with the FSL disk, it had the "no interrupt" msg (below), and
> said 125MHZ...
> 
> ---   David A Woyciesjes
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> ----------
> From: 	Graham Allan
> Sent: 	Friday, June 9, 2000 3:32 PM
> To: 	David Woyciesjes
> Subject: 	Re: Multia diagnostic translation needed
> 
> David,
> 
> Immediately next to the CPU (between the CPU and the drive cradle,) are a
> set of 3 chips with the
> word "Flash" on them... that was my uneducated guess as to the right
> place to look!
> 
> Surprised about the CPU speed... we did run a few of our Multias at
> 266MHz for a while (living on the edge!) - what do the CPU clock speed
> jumpers say?
> 
> G.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:36:52PM -0400, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> > Well, I did the fail-safe load today, and here's the output... (It
> > definitely seems to point to the Flash memory chips now...)
> > 
> > I tried it a second time, and at boot up I got the message:
> > *** no timer interrupts on CPU  0 ***
> > then it said that the CPU speed of my 233 is 125 MHz! The re-load of the
> > firmware got identical output tho...
> > 
> > Does this give anyone any idea as to where the chips are on the board,
> or
> > where/what to look for? I can get new ones soldered on by my brother.
> (he
> > did a nice job with a 166 that suffered Multia H.D.S!)
> > 
> > Here's the output...........
> > 
> > Updating ARC...
> > 
> > ROM BASE = 38400000; MFG ID = 89; DEV ID = 9d
> > Wrong ROM vendor. AMD or Intel Parts expected.
> > 
> > Verifying...
> > not equal at 00000006  AA  8A
> > not equal at 00000007  FF  DF
> > not equal at 00000009  31  11
> > not equal at 0000000A  2E  0E
> > not equal at 0000000B  31  11
> > not equal at 0000000C  20  00
> > not equal at 0000000D  20  00
> > not equal at 0000000E  20  00
> > not equal at 0000000F  20  00
> > not equal at 00000013  20  00
> > more than 10 errors occurred, errors no longer printed
> > A total of 112049 bits did not verify
> > Update encountered errors.
> > 
> > ***clipped***
> > 
> > Updating SRM...
> > 
> > ROM BASE = 38000000; MFG ID = 89; DEV ID = 9d
> > Wrong ROM vendor. AMD or Intel Parts expected.
> > 
> > ****this section was identical***
> > 
> > more than 10 errors occurred, errors no longer printed
> > A total of 1735619 bits did not verify
> > Update encountered errors.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ---   David A Woyciesjes
> > ---   C & IS Support Specialist
> > ---   Yale University Press
> > ---   mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu
> > ---   (203) 432-0953
> > ---   ICQ # - 905818
> > 
> > > ----------
> > > From: 	David Woyciesjes
> > > Sent: 	Thursday, June 8, 2000 3:35 PM
> > > To: 	'''port-alpha@netbsd.org' ' '
> > > Subject: 	Multia diagnostic translation needed
> > > 
> > > I have a Multia, VX42B-F2 ( 233 MHz) ...
> > > 
> > > I try to start it ( no drives connected, 64 MB RAM installed ) the
> > > diagnostic light comes on and flashes a repeating pattern of  long,
> then
> > > short. It also comes out of the speaker with alternating high/low
> tomes,
> > > alongside the flashing light... The manual says it's a hex code, but I
> > > don't
> > > know how to translate it... Previous owner says this means it's "bad
> flash
> > > memory"... If so, I would assume that the group of chips under the
> floppy
> > > drive that have "Flash (some other info)" are the flash memory chips?
> > > 
> > > ---   David A Woyciesjes
> > > ---   C & IS Support Specialist
> > > ---   Yale University Press
> > > ---   mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu
> > > ---   (203) 432-0953
> > > ---   ICQ # - 905818
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> 
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