Re: Advice on Alphaserver 4100

Il Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:16:05 -0700, mcbill20 ha scritto:
Currently at home I have a PWS500. It has 1GB memory supposedly but I
only noticved recently that sometime in the past several months during
a scheduled reboot, only 512MB shows up. Other than that, the box works
great, although more storage options would be nice.

Hello

I also had a problem with memory vanishing from PWS.
I found that a bank of 512MB was failing and it took a long time to make
power on self test.
I cleaned both the sockets and the memory modules, and I swapped the
faulty modules with others but still had the 512MB failing bank.
So I replaced the bank with others spare DIMMs and it worked again like
new.
The bad memory works fine when tested on a PC system.
Very sad that memory goes bad this way, without reason.
I should say that the PWS is really very selective about memory modules!

About the AS4100, I could tell you I have two at home (a bit heavy, but
I took them up to the stairs by myself, only without the power supplyies).
One is broken, the other has 4x466MHz 4MB and runs very fast on heavy duty
tasks (like compiling software for hours)
It has 2 power supplyies, so it is about 900W.
It uses power like it is expected to be for a 900W power supply.
Not so expensive, not really cheap.

Bye
gl
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