[rescue] OT: SGI Power series help

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Geoff Koehler wrote:

I got a message like that in my oooold 4d/440 long time ago (I think,
something like 4 yrs ago, so I might be a bit fuzzy). So there are a
couple things you can try;

a) Take all the boards and re-set them in place, for some reason my
machine was in storage for a looong time and this was one of the side
effects.

b) Or you might have some defective simms, try pulling the memory board
and take the memory out, then start to repreplenish the board to see if
any of the simms were bad.

hope this helps. If not try to see what LEDs (the ones present on the
CPU boards) are on when the machine halts.

Hope this helps, cheers!

> Hi All,
> 
> Well, I finally re-wired the basement and plugged in my "new" SGI 4D/380S
> (no graphics).  It was from a local university and was supposedly functional
> when retired.  Anyway, I get the following self test messages out of the
> serial port
> 
> ......
> [snip]
> Floating Point Unit                    PASSED.
> Sync Bus Controller                    PASSED.
> I/O Mapper, Init Vectors, MODE Regs             PASSED.
> SCSI Controller                 PASSED.
> Data and Intruction Caches            PASSED.
> Full Memory Test             PASSED.
> MP Caches                     PASSED.
> Initialize Local Hardware!          PASSED
> 
> CPU        Local Diag        1st Cache         Memory        MP caches
> 0            PASSED            PASSED            PASSED        PASSED
> [all the way to}
> 7            PASSED            PASSED            PASSED        PASSED
> 
> Sizing and clearing 160 Mb of memory!  Only clear 32MB of physical memory
> Initialize local hardware!
> FAILED POWER-ON DIAGNOSTIC
> Boot stand alone diagnostic to analyze the problems.
> 
> And then it goes away.  I cant seem to interact with the monitor at all
> after this.  Is there a specific key sequence to dump it back into the
> monitor (ie BK, CNTL-C, etc).  Is it talking out of another serial port?
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Cheers, Geoff
> 
> Geoff Koehler
> Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
> Home of the SART Observatory
> http://207.195.94.13/sart/
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