On 11/08/2018 11:09 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote:
I hadn't started this DEC Alpha 3000-300 since last
summer, and booted it up so I could load the new PAK's the
other day.
The result was that it completes almost the entire OpenVMS
startup, but then crashes with the following:
%SET-I-INTSET, login interactive limit = 64, current
interactive value = 0
**** OpenVMS Alpha Operating System V8.4 - BUGCHECK ****
** Bugcheck code = 000001CC: INVEXCEPTN, Exception while
above ASTDEL
** Crash CPU: 00000000 Primary CPU: 00000000 Node
Name: A300
** Highest CPU number: 00000000
** Active CPUs: 00000000.00000001
** Current Process: DECW$STARTUP
** Current PSB ID: 00000001
** Image Name:
A300$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]DECW$CONFIG.EXE;1
**** Starting selective memory dump at 8-NOV-2018 21:57...
The disk is a SCSI2SD board with an 8 GB SD card. It had
been running just fine, until now.
Does this crash point to a hardware or software problem?
ASTDEL indicates that something in the OS caused a machine
check interrupt. Does DECW$CONFIG mean it is the DecWindows
config process that bombed? Can you get the OS to boot in
non-windows mode, and try to log in from a serial terminal?
If DecWindows is blowing up, it could be that the graphics
adapter has a problem, is set to the wrong address, or is a
different type than the software is expecting. You might
unplug and reseat all mezzanine boards and cycle all DIP
switches to make sure it is not just a bad connection.
Jon
