[c-nsp] unhappy NPE-150

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:23:59AM -0400, Ed Ravin wrote:
> > >   *** Cache Error Exception ***
> > 
> > What IOS?  This could be a "too recent IOS" problem.  NPE-150s really
> > don't work anymore with 12.3 and later.
> 
> Sorry, I should have given more detail.  By "on bootup" I mean seconds
> after powerup, just after the Cisco banner prints to the console.  It
> never even gets so far as to load IOS from bootflash, much less the
> main IOS image.  

Indeed, then it's more likely that the NPE is broken - possibly it will
help to re-seat its RAM ("this is always good"), but maybe something
else is just broken.

[..]
> *** Cache Error Exception ***
> Cache Err Reg = 0xa0005c09
> data reference, primary cache, data field error , error not on SysAD Bus 
> PC = 0xbfc1cf8c, Cause = 0x0, Status Reg = 0x3040d007

This hints at problems with Cache RAM - but this is pure guesswork.

gert
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