Subject: RE: Multia won't boot
To: 'John Hayward' <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/27/2001 12:32:00
John ---
This only applies, as far as I know, if you have a 166mHz Multia...
Look on the bottom, along the edge that's next to the power supply. Granted,
this may not be the cause, but it's a known problem.
The prevention for this chip roasting is to either replace the fan
with a higher output one, or clip the thermal resistor off of the existing
fan (yellow wires to a little red resistor), so it runs faster.
--- David A Woyciesjes
--- C & IS Support Specialist
--- Yale University Press
--- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu
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! -----Original Message-----
! From: John Hayward [mailto:John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu]
! Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:17 PM
! To: David Woyciesjes
! Cc: 'John Hayward'; port-alpha@netbsd.org
! Subject: RE: Multia won't boot
!
!
! I had removed the internal hard drive and ran with the board
! no fully inserted into the case to allow additional air flow.
!
! Where is the E215 located on the bottom ofo the board?
!
! TIA
! johnh...
! On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:
!
! > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:13:26 -0400
! > From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
! > To: 'John Hayward' <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>,
! port-alpha@netbsd.org
! > Subject: RE: Multia won't boot
! >
! > How was the airflow and cooling on your Multia? If you
! look at the
! > bottom of the board, how does the E215 chip look? Hopefully
! it's not burnt
! > (Heat Death...)
! >
! > --- David A Woyciesjes
! > --- C & IS Support Specialist
! > --- Yale University Press
! > --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu
! > --- (203) 432-0953
! > --- ICQ # - 905818
! >
! >
! > ! -----Original Message-----
! > ! From: John Hayward [mailto:John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu]
! > ! Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:02 PM
! > ! To: port-alpha@netbsd.org
! > ! Subject: Multia won't boot
! > !
! > !
! > ! Dear NetBSDers,
! > ! I had an Multia running for some time. I've had
! > ! NetBSD-1.5 running on
! > ! it. It had been serving as a NAT machine, web server, imap
! > ! server etc on
! > ! my DSL line. About 6 weeks ago i noticed some halts while
! > ! running.
! > ! Sometimes when I attempted to reboot it seemed to stop
! > ! before it got to
! > ! the SRM console information - the monitor would indicate it
! > ! was recieving
! > ! no signal before anything was displayed. Sometimes it
! would boot but
! > ! hang part way thru the messages. Other times it would boot and
! > ! seem to run for several days.
! > ! About 5 weeks ago TELOCITY DSL went out and was out for 4
! > ! weeks. I was
! > ! gone on vacation duing the last part of this time and
! when I came back
! > ! last night I could not get the Multia to ever get to the
! point I could
! > ! see anything on the monitor. I removed the NCR SCSI
! controler, PCI
! > ! eithernet card, reseated memory, tried some other memory all
! > ! to no avail.
! > ! Previously I had trouble (of a different sort) and
! several people
! > ! suggested getting a new clock battery. I think that was
! > ! about a 15 months
! > ! ago.
! > ! Any suggestions would be appreciated.
! > ! I also would be interested in getting the info off the SCSI
! > ! disk. Should I be able to access this from a VAX or MIPS
! > ! machine or is
! > ! the 64 bit integers/indianess going to be an issue?
! > !
! > ! TIA
! > ! johnh...
! > !
! >
!