perry@cs.odu.edu (Perry Lovill) (11/06/90)
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Our file server has been crashing with the above error message serveral
times a day for the last week-and-a-half; and I am now at a complete loss
(short of replacing the entire File Server) as to how to solve the problem.
I no longer have the manual for the 386 motherboard, and have no diagnostics
particular to this system. I downloaded the RAMTST30 program from the SIMTEL20
archives and ran it all night, but it never discovered any bad memory chips.
There have been no hardware or software changes to the system in months, and
it was running fine up until the week before last; so I am inclined to
believe it is a hardware problem of some sort, but w/o diagnostics to pin-
point it, I am at a loss. I have even tried taking out each memory chip
and re-seating them (they are all on the motherboard) and each expansion
card too.
If anyone has ideas, suggestions, directions to other resources, the
information would be greatly appreciated. The (hopefully relevant) details
are as follows:
- 386 8/25Mhz CPU, 1 mono/lpt, 2 com's, 1 1.2Mb fl, 4Mb RAM=18 1Mbit DRAM's
- Future Domain SCSI host adapter Model 750
- SCSI CDC 94171-9 WrenIV (~300Mb) hard drive
- SCSI CIPHER QIC-format (~250Mb) tape drive
- American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) 386-BIOS
- APS Corp. UPS system Model 520ES
- Novell Advanced Netware 286 V2.12 8/12/88
As usual, ADVthanksANCE,
Perry
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Perry Lovill, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA, USA (PROSOFT Inc., VA Beach, VA)
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