vjg@cbnews.att.com (vincent.j.guinto) (01/31/91)
Help! This evening when I got home from work, I found my 7300 sitting patiently with the following hideous and frightening gibberish on the screen: hpte: 0x4001 type = 0x1F, pid = 0, pc = 0x165C, rps = 0x2004, p = 0x4A030 GSR=DD00, BSR0=FC00, BSR1=165A PHYSPF=1 D0=14, D1=0, D2=0, D3=FFFFB1E0 D4=FFFFFFFF, D5=FFFFFFFF, D6=1, D7=0 A0=400100,A1=400104, A2=7AE02, A3=4A490 A4=4A180, A5=4A490, A6=70630, A7=2FFC58 panic: NMI (kernel parity error) Does anybody know what this means? When I rebooted using the reset button, the system came up and is apparently running fine again. PC info and other possible clues: - It's a fairly old 7300, probably manufactured early in the product's lifespan. It's got a 20-Mb hard drive, 1.5 MB plus a combo card with an extra .5 MB, no other hardware installed. - The fans (original ones) are still running fine, and there are no warm or hot spots anywhere. - My wife was home most of the day, and says there weren't any power flickers that she noticed. - I just upgraded 2 weeks ago to 3.51, but got it off a (gasp) bootleg copy of the 3.51 Foundation Set. - One year ago, the 7300 would reboot fully on its first try. After the hard disk went bad and was replaced, it virtually NEVER reboots fully on the first try, but succeeds on the second attempt. - About 4 weeks ago, the speaker lost much of its volume; now when I use the telephone manager to dial a number, the touch tones and ringing are virtually inaudible. - Since I loaded 3.51, I've had problems dialing in to the mainframe at work and using the terminal emulator. The 7300 dials in correctly, but the emulator is "chunky", i.e., it prints a few characters/lines and pauses for a few seconds, prints and pauses, etc., continuously. It also periodically drops the connection with no warning or indication other than a lack of response from the mainframe. This problem may be unrelated to the (apparent) hardware problem. Can anyone offer any insight into what's going on? If some part of the hardware is going bad, I'd like to get stuff off of the thing before it goes out completely. I can also bring it in to work and have it repaired, but don't want to carry the thing around in my car any more than I have to for fear of killing the hard disk. Thanks much for any help! ---------------------------------------------------------- Vince Guinto att!cblph!vjg AT&T Bell Laboratories Opinions are mine, Columbus, OH not AT&T's
gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) (02/06/91)
In <1991Jan31.034101.21875@cbnews.att.com> vjg@cbnews.att.com (vincent.j.guinto) writes: > - About 4 weeks ago, the speaker lost much of its volume; > now when I use the telephone manager to dial a number, > the touch tones and ringing are virtually inaudible. It may be a case of dirty contacts on the speaker volume control, located under the right side of the case, toward the front. It was not for many months after I got my machine that I discovered the control (not being one to read all the directions before powering up :-). I'd slide the control back and forth several times. You could even squirt some contact cleaner in there the next time you have the machine open to clean out the dust bunnies. Good luck! -- Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst