Hi,
 
A friend of mine noticed some hard memory errors (:SYSDIAG / LOGTOOL / MEMRPT)
on their HP3000 and called HP.  The CE said, as I understand it,:
 
   1) MPE/iX 5.0 has the ability to mark a page "bad" and not use it,
      so don't worry.
 
   2) HP won't replace a board if less than 10% of the pages have had
      errors.
 
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Maybe your friend could just flag that CE "bad" (or whatever suggested
to leave the flaky board in the system) and shop around for service.
I (Bob J. the CE) thought that folks were paying me to keep questionable
hardware out of their systems, but the group I work with still does
PMs too. Maybe that makes us old fashioned.
 
 
Bob Jankalski  --  Ideal Computer Services