[rescue] looking for RAM for Sun Fire 280R

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Sun said that it was not uncommon for memory modules to "wiggle" loose and
need reseating.  I have seen this as a field engineer and a sysadmin.
The systemboard could be bad or failing also.
Hopefully, it was just memory modules in need of reseating.
A memory bank's circuit or slots can also fail.  Not using that particular
memory bank can prolong the life of the server in some cases.


On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Bill Wenrich <bethemusic at yahoo.com> wrote:

> When I ran the full diagnostic, it marked two of the 1gb DIMMs as faulty.
> In future diagnostic boots, the 280R also gave errors and asked me to
> replace the CPUs and motherboard.
>
> I just shifted the DIMMs around a bunch of times and eventually there were
> no errors. All 4x1gb and 4x256mb DIMMs are recognized and passed ECC
> checks. No idea what happened...
>
>
> On 11/25/2011 2:17 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
>
>> On 25 Nov 2011, at 01:22, Bill Wenrich wrote:
>>
>>  I seem to have an ECC error on one of the 1gb DIMMs in my Sun Fire 280R.
>>> Sadly, the diagnostics don't seem to be able to tell me which one.
>>>
>>> These need to be matched sets of four, so I'm looking for an X7063A or
>>>
>> X7052A (kit or maybe just one stick if I'm lucky).
>>
>>> Thoughts? or any idea how to get rid of a whole 280R (2x 1015MHz, 2x
>>> 146gb
>>>
>> FC-AL, DVD-ROM, RSC, PCI graphics)...
>>
>> I can't help with the RAM but when I booted Solairs 10 on my Ultra 60
>> when it
>> had a faulty DIMM the failure message in
>> Solaris told me which slot it was.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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>>
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