MRIQ Excite System Has Dark Lines Going Through Images.
Symptom
MRIQ Excite System Has Dark Lines Going Through Images. Looks Very Digital See long description and attached File. URL to image library; http://3.87.118.28/optec3/common/8xdocs/epst/mod11/m11_010_000.html Problem: The system is a 1.5T with Excite running 11.0 M4 software. The Customer is experiencing artifacts on images. They appear very digital, black lines through the images. See attached images for an example. When these artifacts occur the following error is seen in the log. These errors do not stop the scan. The system scans normally but the images have these artifacts. Thu Sep 16 09:36:26 2004 Error: 2249410 Host: lx-mr Process: diagCoord File: excLog.c Line: 1132 Task ID: 0x3ac1d88 Time: 123577 Object: APS A PCI error occurred. The PCI Parity Error PERR was asserted. Raven Err Enable Reg: 0x3F; Raven Err Status Reg: 0x8. Raven Err Address Reg: 0x0; Raven Err Attribute Reg: 0x0. Additional information in /usr/g/service/log/vxPciLg-1e27e We ran MGD data path diags and the IT > APS diags fail with the following: Thu Sep 16 16:52:12 2004 Error: 2252063 Host: lx-mr Process: diagCoord File: bit3_dp.c Line: 233 Diagnostic: Host->IT->APS Iteration: 1 of 1 Action: 1 Task ID: 0x0 Time: 1095367932 Object: Host Diag Executive The test data transfered over the IT bus contains incorrect values. This might be caused by bad IT bus boards or cables. 16793600 bad values found of 67174400 values tested.-> Thu Sep 16 16:52:12 2004 Error: 2249409 Host: lx-mr Process: diagCoord File: mgd750PciErr.c Line: 1226 Task ID: 0x3fe7cc8 Time: 11901 Object: APS A PCI error was detected, but message queue send failed to the exception logging task; errno = 0x3D0002. Raven Err Enable Reg: 0x3F; Raven Err Status Reg: 0x88. Raven Err Address Reg: 0x0; Raven Err Attribute Reg: 0x0.
Error message
2249410 A PCI error occured. The PCI Parity Error PERR was asserted. Error: 2249410 File: excLog.c Line: 1132 Task ID: 0x3ac1d68 Time: 23639 Object: AGP A PCI error occured. The PCI Parity Error PERR was asserted. Raven Err Enable Reg: 0x3F; Raven Err Status Reg: 0x88 Raven Err Address Reg: 0x0; Raven Err Attribute Reg: 0x0. Additional information in /usr/g/service/log/vxPciLg-5c2c 2252063 The test data transferred over the IT bus contains incorrect values. Thu Sep 16 16:52:12 2004 Error: 2252063 Host: lx-mr Process: diagCoord File: bit3_dp.c Line: 233 Diagnostic: Host->IT->APS Iteration: 1 of 1 Action: 1 Task ID: 0x0 Time: 1095367932 Object: Host Diag Executive The test data transfered over the IT bus contains incorrect values. This might be caused by bad IT bus boards
Applies to
- Models
- Excite
- Product
- Excite Includes Excite 1 and Excite 2, 10.0, 11.0 and 11.1 Software.
- Software
- 11.0 Only for 1.5T Excite product. 12.0 is Excite HD and 14.0 is Excite HDx. Note, 3T Excite goes with software G3, not 11.0 or 11.1.
- Area
- MR
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