I have two KA-675s for this beast: Board #1 (originally installed) has a failed B-cache (console reports SUBTEST_35_12, DE_B_Cache_diag_mode.LIS) and crashes with an asynchronous write memory failure when booting VMS from CD.
I wonder is there a way to disable the B-cache? I mention this because I have more than one Alphaserver 1000A with failed B-cache and I have found it is possible to work around this issue by moving a jumper on the CPU board to disable the B-cache. The result is that the machine works with reduced performance. Regards, Peter Coghlan.
