Hi, >> >On the other hand, there seems to be a 'the alpha bug' around. I don't >> >think it's solved yet, and it's been around for a long time. >> >Apparently, >> >it causes random crashes.
only on some machines. >> >> I was not aware of this bug. That is unfortunate. Hopefully this >> might be resolved at some point. > > I do hope so; but I might be wrong there. I've never owned an Alpha, an > don't think it's very likely I'll acquire one in the nearish future, so > I haven't followed too closely. Should be still there, didn't follow it to closely but didn't get any info about it being resolved. If somebody would've found it there'd likely been a post to the alpha list since this mystery is around for years. Have two machines down in the basement whicht have it and one which doesn't, travels with swapping the CPU-Boards as far as I could test it. But being honest I didn't turn them on in months and couldn't go into detail since to much other work had to be done. Just shooting in the blue it seemed to be something with MP and LLC, maybe putting CPUs with not working SMP Elements into SP machines and sometimes it wrecks the cache. Found only one guy though which had some knowledge about the Hardware there and he gave up on it after he got a faster CPU module which didn't show the LLC errors anymore. since SMP is slowly moving ahead, maybe something shows up... ;) -sm
