I would have thought that this is badly seated memory. Try removing it and
reinstalling it (give it a wiggle and blow off any dust from the
connectors too). If it were just faulty it is more likely that only some
of the data lines would be dammaged. You would detect this by programs
crashing or the system not wanting to boot. You can also go into prom and
run the hardware test. This will flag any errors. If it doesn't then their
can be several reasons. 1) the memory power is dammaged and it's not
accepting any data at all or 2) the memory just isn't properly connected
to the IP30 board (take it out clean it and pop it back in). Again Octane
memory is quite cheap so if it's still not working scroundge some memory
to test the slots and if it works buy more.

*********************
Khalid Schofield
System Administrator / EM Technician
Dept. Of Materials
University Of Oxford
Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PH

Email: khalid.schofield@materials.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 273785
Fax: 01865 283333
Web: http://www-em.materials.ox.ac.uk/peo...eld/index.html


On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, James Stanley wrote:

>
> Hello all,
>
> I just got my Octane back up and running from a bad front plane. Now I
> am having another problem. The box has 4 pairs of 64M sticks of memory,
> for a total of 512M. The machine is only reporting 384M in the HINV.
> What is the best way to check the memory? It may only be a mismatched
> pair or something more. I have read that it is not good the keep taking
> the boards in and out so I am looking for a 'better' way.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> James
>
> --
> James Stanley
>
> http://www.sgizone.net
>
>
>

In article ,
James Stanley wrote:
:I just got my Octane back up and running from a bad front plane. Now I
:am having another problem. The box has 4 pairs of 64M sticks of memory,
:for a total of 512M. The machine is only reporting 384M in the HINV.

Although it won't help your situation, I'll take this opportunity to
report that we found that on the Octane, it was necessary to
place the memory in descending order of size -- largest first, next
largest, smallest last.
--
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific.
Loftily poised on ether capacious
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous. -- Anon

OK, I pulled all the memory and cleaned the slots and the DIMM's and
reinstalled it in a different order. Now the machine complains when it
is booting up. It did not do this before, so my guess would be that the
bad DIMM's were in the last slot and didn't cause a boot error. I may be
wrong about this so please chime in anytime. I am going to go through
the memory ad see if I can pull out the bad DIMM's.

Thanks,
james

Khalid Schofield wrote:

> I would have thought that this is badly seated memory. Try removing it and
> reinstalling it (give it a wiggle and blow off any dust from the
> connectors too). If it were just faulty it is more likely that only some
> of the data lines would be dammaged. You would detect this by programs
> crashing or the system not wanting to boot. You can also go into prom and
> run the hardware test. This will flag any errors. If it doesn't then their
> can be several reasons. 1) the memory power is dammaged and it's not
> accepting any data at all or 2) the memory just isn't properly connected
> to the IP30 board (take it out clean it and pop it back in). Again Octane
> memory is quite cheap so if it's still not working scroundge some memory
> to test the slots and if it works buy more.
>
> *********************
> Khalid Schofield
> System Administrator / EM Technician
> Dept. Of Materials
> University Of Oxford
> Parks Road
> Oxford
> OX1 3PH
>
> Email: khalid.schofield@materials.ox.ac.uk
> Tel: 01865 273785
> Fax: 01865 283333
> Web: http://www-em.materials.ox.ac.uk/peo...eld/index.html
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, James Stanley wrote:
>
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I just got my Octane back up and running from a bad front plane. Now I
>>am having another problem. The box has 4 pairs of 64M sticks of memory,
>>for a total of 512M. The machine is only reporting 384M in the HINV.
>>What is the best way to check the memory? It may only be a mismatched
>>pair or something more. I have read that it is not good the keep taking
>>the boards in and out so I am looking for a 'better' way.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>James
>>
>>--
>>James Stanley
>>
>>http://www.sgizone.net
>>
>>
>>

--
James Stanley

http://www.sgizone.net

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