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Subject: (ESNUG 295 #4 296 #8) My Sun Crashes Once A Day -- SILENT RECALL!
> Well, after struggling with what falsely appeared to be bad memory modules
> and very few utilities to diagnose any kind of hardware problem, the Sun
> guys came out and swapped out the CPUs. They mumbled something about a CPU
> bug and a silent recall, and our workstation has been up and running for
> the past week solidly. I have no idea if I'll be charged for these CPUs
> yet, but go figure that Sun's "simulate crashes instead of crashing" ad
> campaign! I thought UNIX/Sun was immune to this kind of stuff and only
> Intel/PC's were plauged with it. Gash darn that complexity thing is at
> it again, Vern!
>
> - Victor J. Duvanenko
> Truevision
From: John Patty <patty@rtp.ericsson.se>
We had an Ultra1 do that sort of thing about a month ago. It turned out
that the CPU fan had stopped working. The workstation would crash randomly
whenever the processor got too hot.
- John Patty
Ericsson Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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