[LispM] Fwd: troubleshooting nubus memory?

[r.stricklin]

On May 2, 2009, at 9:33 PM, Scott Burson wrote:

> Forgive me if I state the obvious, but have you reseated all the  
> socketed chips?  That's repair technique #1 for hardware of that  
> era.  (In case you don't know what I mean -- chips in sockets tend  
> to work loose eventually because of thermal cycling.  Reseating  
> means to press each chip back into its socket.)
>

Only 4 MB of the 16 total is in sockets, but yes.

> I would think 1.6MW would be plenty to boot Lisp, though I don't  
> recall for sure.

I didn't even get that far. With 1.6 MW, the control panel bombs  
during booting of the IIfx and forces a reset. I don't know enough  
about what's supposed to happen to know whether that's an indication  
of my problem,

ok
bear