Hi everybody,
Five years ago, my boss purchased a DEC 3000 300X workstation, which came
with the DEC OSF/1 operating system. After being used for a couple of
years, the machine stopped functioning properly, and it became unable to
pass the initial power tests. The exact output on the screen was:
DEC 3000 - M300X
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
SYSTEM CONDUCTING POWER TESTS
--------------------------------------------------------
Devnam Devstat
------- ---------
CPU OK KN16-CA -V3.3-S6EC-I15E-sV2.1 -DECchip 21064 P3.0-175
ASIC OK
MEM OK 48MB
NVR OK
CXT OK
SCC
**** System Machine Check Abort has occured ****
PC = 000DAF70
PS = 00000000.0016FA58
MCHK+000 = 00000000.000001E0
MCHK+008 = 000001A0.00000110
MCHK+010 = 00000001.00000092
MCHK+018 = 00000000.00000001
MCHK+020 = 000005F8.00000004
MCHK+028 = 00000000.0010E770
MCHK+030 = 00000000.00203004
After consulting DEC, and also this list, the conclusion was that the best
solution would be a motherboard swap. At this point the problem was
forgotten, and it only came back up recently again.
- Do you think it is worth fixing this computer at this point?
- If yes, what kind of OS should we install? Is OSF/1 still around or
do we need to switch to the current version of Digital Unix?
- Does the merger of Compaq with Digital translate to bad news for this
type of workstations?
- Are these motherboards still supported?
- Are software still available for these workstations?
GNU products? Netscape? etc.
- What does this list suggest that we do?
Thanks in advance for your input.
Received on Thu Feb 18 1999 - 02:55:09 NZDT