[c-nsp] 7206 crash in iomem2

[Vinny Abello]

At 11:00 AM 4/6/2005, Steven Bertsch wrote:

>At 12:06 AM 4/6/2005, Vinny Abello wrote:
>>In researching a crash on a 7206VXR I have the following information:
>>
>>...which shows the address 0xE2B02E1 (or 0x0E2B02E1) is in the range
>>for iomem2 and appears to be a hardware problem. My question is, what
>>hardware is this memory contained in? Is this the I/O controller of
>>the router? Would the recommended action be to replace the I/O
>>controller? We've had reboots on this router before, but not in quite
>>some time. The previous ones seemed to be software bugs according to
>>TAC which went away up until now with IOS 12.2.27 mainline (what the
>>router is presently running when this crash occurred).
>
>Iomem is usually carved out of main memory which is
>located on the NPE/NSE, although the NPE-300 has
>a separate 32MB stick set aside for this IIRC.
>
>The only user-serviceable memory on the I/O controller would
>be the flash (and bootflash depending upon the I/O controller).
>
>
>Regards,
>_______________________________________________________________
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Yes, it appears that is the case. I have another NPE-300 (the one 
that crashed is also an NPE-300) here in front of me with 256MB of 
RAM, but it also has a 32MB DIMM in it as well. So I suppose it's 
possible that this 32MB DIMM might need to be re-seated or replaced. 
Does that sound accurate?

Vinny Abello
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