[rescue] More looking for... Ultra 2 and Other Equipment

[Ethan Hawke]

400Mhz/2mb are the fastest listed supported, no idea if the 450Mhz CPUs 
will POST or not. What revision motherboard is in your Ultra 2?

Do you have a capture of the actual POST error messages?

Ethan

On 07/11/2023 1:40 pm, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> I should have mentioned that
> I reseated the ram and swapped known good memory from my Ultra 1 
> without success. Pulled the Creator card. Reseated the CPU as well. I 
> may buy another CPU as they are relatively cheap and I'd like to go 
> dual as well... What is the top spec CPU for this machine? 400mhz/2mb 
> is listed in the manual (and is what I have), but I seem to recall 
> folks using 450mhz and/or more cache.
>
> mike
>
> On Monday, November 6, 2023 at 08:29:38 PM CST, Ethan Hawke via rescue 
> <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>
>
> Ultra 2's are generally very reliable, I recommend reseating the CPUs 
> and memory if you haven't already.
>
> Cheers,
> Ethan
>
> On 07/11/2023 1:12 pm, Michael Dombrowski via rescue wrote:
> I finally had a chance to dig into the Ultra 2... and this is my first 
> miss complete miss in getting back into retro computers. "Red State 
> Exceptions" and other memory errors lead me to believe that this 
> machine is irrecoverably sick. So I'm looking for another Ultra 2 machine.
>
> The rest of my list:
> SS1000(E)
> TGX+
> Horizontal Creator Series 3 or Elite3d M3/M6
> Tadpole 3200/Cyclequad
> Sparcplug
> Dec 5000
> Indy/Indigo2
> Alpha, RS6k
> HP 712/100mhz (complete system or logic board alone)
> Other weird stuff
>
> Still in St Louis
>
> thanks
> mike
>
>
>
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