Subject: RE: Multia diagnose ( was RE: multia diagnostic light )
To: 'Eric.Melville (Exchange)' <Eric.Melville@target.com>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/10/2000 14:34:23
_Huh_ ? _What_ ?????
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> From: Wilko Bulte
> Reply To: wilko@freebsd.org
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 2:22 PM
> To: David Woyciesjes
> Cc: 'port-alpha@netbsd.org'; 'Eric.Melville (Exchange)'
> Subject: Re: Multia diagnose ( was RE: multia diagnostic light )
>
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 01:28:09PM -0400, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> > Sounds like a memory problem from what info I dug up... Try re-seating
> the
> > SIMMs, or if you have four in there, try all combinations of two at a
> time
> > to see if you can find the bad one...
> >
> > Or is it the same Multia as from one of these previous messages?
> >
> > **********
> >
> > On the subject of physical problems with multias, how about those little
> > (about 5 by 3mm) black things on the underside of the board? While
> sliding
> > the board out of the case, I seem to have knocked one of them off the
> board
> > with that round thing that the board uses to attach to the case. There
> are
> > only two contacts on it's bottom. What is this part and how hard is it
> to
> > fix this one?
>
> Electrolytic tantalum capacitor from the sound of it. Probably power
> decoupling.
>
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