[SunHELP] Red State Exception

Martin Wedel sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sun Nov 19 18:09:00 CST 2000


I had the same problem in an Ultra 10. It was a bad processor.
If this is a personal machine, not under any contract (as I imagine it is)
you can regularly find 300mhz modules for 300 USD or so...
--
Martin Wedel
sun at minor-element.net
http://www.minor-element.net/

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Lyndon Griffin wrote:

> A friend of mine has an ultra 5 he bought recently ( unfortunately, I
> don't have physical access to the machine ).  During the POST, he's
> getting a Red State Exception message followed by what appear to be
> several lines of 64bit registers prefixed with codes like TL=, TPC=, IT=,
> NPC=, TNPC=, e.g.
> 	TL = 0000.0000.0000.0005
> 	IT = 0000.0000.0000.0010
> 	TPC = 0000.0000.f000.4200
> 	NPC = 0000.0000.f000.4204
>
> These messages repeat, decrementing TL each time, with TPC and NPC values
> both increasing.  The final code i
> 	TSTATE = 0000.0044.5600.0400
>





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