[c-nsp] unhappy NPE-150

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

oooh, i said i saw this before with an IOS mismatch, actually i think it was 
when i tried to put more memory in than the NPE supported.

either way, i think the NPE-150 is fine but your memory/IOS is wrong..

Steve

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, John Neiberger wrote:

> For what it's worth, whenever I've seen a cache error exception it's
> been because of faulty memory. I saw this several times recently while
> troubleshooting a bad 7513 chassis that kept frying the cards. A
> couple of different RSPs went bad and I kept getting cache error
> exceptions.
> 
> John
> 
> On 7/8/05, Ed Ravin <eravin at panix.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:19:47AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:38:09PM -0400, Ed Ravin wrote:
> > > > I dusted off an old NPE-150 removed from service and tried to use
> > > > it in a known good 7206 non-VXR chassis.  These messages appeared
> > > > on bootup:
> > > >
> > > >   C7200 processor with 131072 Kbytes of main memory
> > > >
> > > >   *** 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.  If I send BREAK I can get to the rommon prompt but
> > simple commands like "dir" fail (see below).
> > 
> > ---------------------
> > System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(10) [dschwart 10], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> > Copyright (c) 1994 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> > C7200 processor with 131072 Kbytes of main memory
> > 
> > rommon 1 > dir slot1:
> > 
> > *** Emulating mis-aligned load at 0x80005a7a
> >     PC = 0xbfc18c5c ... succeeded
> > loadprog: error - on read during ELF program load
> > 
> > *** Emulating mis-aligned load at 0x80005a7a
> >     PC = 0xbfc187c0 ... succeeded
> > requested -797551275 (0xd0765555) bytes, got 49152 (0xc000)
> > 
> > *** Emulating mis-aligned load at 0xa0002d7a
> >     PC = 0xbfc16c30 ... succeeded
> > cannot load the monitor library "
> > *** 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
> > 
> > monitor: command "dir" aborted due to exception
> > 
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