Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!helios!ewillis From: ewillis@cs.tamu.edu (Edward Dean Willis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k Subject: Re: Need help with AV-4000 hardware (?) error Summary: Found Answer -- Maybe Keywords: DG Aviion av-4000 memory fault Message-ID: <15900@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 6 May 91 22:52:57 GMT Expires: 12 May 91 05:00:00 GMT References: <15871@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Distribution: usa Organization: Some Research Lab, Texas A&M University Lines: 39 In article <15871@helios.TAMU.EDU> ewillis@cs.tamu.edu (Edward Dean Willis) writes: >My DG AV-4000 is developing this error usually when swapping: > >Unrecoverable memory fault at physical location FFF82034 (hex) >DG/UX System Panic. Panic Code 1000037. > > >Of course, I called DG. They said mail it in -- it can be ready in only 30 >days! Thanks to the folks that responded so quickly. As suspected, the problem appears to be a memory mapped device. Lest anyone be deceived -- I am not on maintenance contract with DG, and the 30-day figure is from their service depot. I later called "DG help" and a neat guy named Jack decoded the error address as a fault in the I/O register for duart 1, and referred me to a local (within 100 miles) SE who is coming out to put in a new motherboard tomorrow. For a fee, to be sure. More than my last sports car, but much better than I had expected. To bad the duarts are soldered in.... By 5:00, the district service manager had called, offering new ideas in service contracts.... made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I sure hope that the new motherboard fixes the problem, or I will be invited to a necktie party by my "peers" (They are "peering" in at this very moment. Look sort of hungry, too.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ewillis@cs.tamu.edu | Not an official statement from anybody, ewillis@loanstar.tamu.edu | including me, myself, I, or TAMU. anything.but.late.for.supper | Trust me.