[Info-vax] Old MicroVAX Crash

[Rich Jordan]

On Oct 7, 7:17 am, gartm... at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph
Gartmann) wrote:
> In article <653bc25f-ae01-4331-aa33-03122237d... at m11g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, Volker Halle <volker_ha... at hotmail.com> writes:
>
> >this is a CDAL Parity Error, caused by - most likely - intermittent
> >cache or memory errors. I suppose the machine just wrote a crashdump
> >and rebooted fine.
>
> Indeed, this is what happened. We discovered the crash just today.
>
> >If this starts to happen more often, re-seating the memory may help...
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Regards,
>    Christoph Gartmann
>
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We've had that crash (or one very similar) happen to two systems,
years ago.  One time a cleaning/PM/reseat, as Volker suggested, took
care of the problem (that system, a VS3100-30 is still running on my
desk at 20 years old ;).  The other one required a new main logic
board; that was back when we still had onsite service contracts for
the VAXen and the FSE made the call after the PM/reseat did not work.