SUMMARY: Memory Address not Aligned error

From: Mike Jewison (mjewison@irus.rri.on.ca)
Date: Thu Sep 24 1998 - 13:11:45 CDT


My previous attempt to send this failed. Last week, I wrote:

>
> Greetings.
>
> I have a Sparc 4 with one 32MB memory module installed. For the past
> couple of days, it has generated a "Memory Address not Aligned" error
> message while performing the memory test on boot, and then hangs. I
> have no other modules I can swap into this computer. Is it likely the
> memory has gone bad, as I suspect, or am I also looking at problems
> elsewhere in the system?
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>

I had checked the archives before posting this and discovered that the
success of the search function is highly dependent on the values you
give it. I had made my search too restrictive and didn't find
anything of value.

I was told the problem was either the CPU board (which it wasn't) or a
bad SIMM (which it was). We've replaced the memory module in the
system and it is up and running again.

Thanks to everyone who replied.

- Mike

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