UPDATE... HP engineer came in and tried to reset (RS) our system... and he kept
getting a FLT 1009, which indicates a faulty processor. He then decided to do a
power cycle and the system came up without a problem. His early [opinion] is
that possibly the cache was corrupted which was fixed on the power cycle.
Therefore, he did not replace the board. I am not entirely comfortable with this
but I have to live with it. C'est la vie...

>>> John Lee <[log in to unmask]> 06/29 4:25 PM >>>
If my experience is worth anything to anyone, Wes' board failure is very
rare.  On about 100 systems under contract, we don't on average replace
even one processor per year.

Wes- by chance did you have any power spikes recently?  Is the system
behind a power conditioner?  Fans all working?

John Lee
Vaske Computer Solutions

At 03:50 PM 6/29/01 -0400, Wesley Setree wrote:
>Today one of our 918 processor boards bit the dust. I know I haven't been
in the
>MPE arena as long as some of you, however, this is the first time I have
seen a
>processor board go bad. Of all the days for this to happen, we are at
month end
>and fiscal year end. The good news is the replacement board was at the HP
office
>that services our facility. The bad news is we are going on over 5 hours
of down
>time. This is the first time in over 18 months that we have had a hardware
>failure (not including our DDS drives and old printers) and that failure
was for
>an old disk drive.  Other than the horrible timing, this is yet one more
>testimony to the reliability and performance of this platform. Too bad the
>general public still has no idea what they are... :o(
>
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