Table 4-4 Status And Error Codes (Continued) - Digital Equipment AlphaStation 500 Series User Information

Table 4-4 Status and Error Codes (continued)

Nonfatal Error Code Meaning
EE No bcache size bits detected
EB Failed to detect CPU speed
E9 Failed to detect real-time clock; system defaults to 300 Mhz,
providing the most relaxed operating parameters
E4 Memory datapath error. If there is no more memory to reconfigure
after the offending bank has been mapped out, error code FA will be
displayed (See FATAL errors).
E3 Memory address line error; system maps out the offending bank and
reconfigures without it. If there is no more memory to reconfigure
after the offending bank has been mapped out, error code FA will be
displayed (See FATAL errors).
E2 Bcache cell error
E1 Memory cell error
E0 ROM checksum error
Fatal Error Code Meaning
FF No scache bits set in sc_ctl register
FD Floppy drive error
FC No MMBs, or MMB mismatch *
FB Reserved
FA NO usable memory detected, or all detected memory fails the memory
tests
F9 Sys init failure — read/write miscompare in one of the control/status
registers
F8 PCI data path error
F7 pceb init failure
F6 System finds a bad CIA memory csr
F5 Bcache data path error
F4 Bcache address line error
F3 Bcache cell error
F2 Reserved
F1 ROM data path read error
F0 Reserved
* AlphaStation 500 Series have no MMB's, this is a message for AlphaStation 600 Series.
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