[rescue] Location of faulty SIMM in IPC?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Feb 1 14:47:24 CST 2002


On February 1, Carl-Johan Schenstrom wrote:
> I'm trying to rescue an IPC with memory parity errors. This shouldn't be a
> problem at all, just head over to sunsolve.sun.com and the FEH and look up
> which SIMM is failing in the memory address <-> SIMM table. Except.. that
> table and a lot of its likes are replaced by zero byte GIF's. =(
> 
> Can anyone help me locate the SIMM with memory address 0xf04c5e84, please?

  Run the ROM-based memory tests from the "ok" prompt.  I believe
that, on the IPC, that'll tell you what SIMM number is failing, and
those numbers should be silkscreened on the board.  Assuming the
ROM-based memory tests actually find the failure, that is...

   -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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