Problem with CISCO Router 2600 series Booting

Hey guys, So it seems like i have a bad luck when it comes to cisco devices. Just broke a 2950 switch as some of you know.

Now I have this new problem. This router was working fine when i checked a few days ago. didn't do anything on it after. but today when i started learning routing and tried to boot it up it shows me error message and the booting process is in continuous loop.

Here's what I see:

################################################################################### [OK]

*** Machine Check Exception ***
PC = 0x826c0178, Vector = 0x200, SP = 0x8000616c

monitor: command "boot" aborted due to exception

System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(7r) [cmong 7r], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C2600 platform with 65536 Kbytes of main memory

program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0x1912848
Self decompressing the image : ######################################################################################################################

boot aborted due to exception. No idea why this is happening. Haven't even learned any command on routers and it has started to give me trouble.

So i searched a bit online and a cisco site said send a break command. so through tera term I did

and it takes me to ROMMON mode, which I have no idea what that is.

So through ROMMON mode I tried typing few commands like boot and stuff but no luck.

Any idea from you guys would be great!!

I'm not giving up just yet.

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Comments

MTciscoguy

You need to add some more memory to that machine, you don't have enough to load the IOS you are trying to load. More Memory.

Error : memory requirements exceed available memory
Memory required : 0x047479B8

memory requirements exceed available memory

The equipment is telling you what it needs.

sagarmistry

MTciscoguy wrote: »

You need to add some more memory to that machine, you don't have enough to load the IOS you are trying to load. More Memory.

Error : memory requirements exceed available memory
Memory required : 0x047479B8

memory requirements exceed available memory

The equipment is telling you what it needs.

yes i was told that, but that's y i was trying to do tftp and put a smaller ios.

MTciscoguy

You might take a read through this link.

CCIE Home Lab, what to do when your router has too little Flash space for IOS | FirstDigest

clarson

sagarmistry wrote: »

You were right. I stopped the firewall and the connection started however, two questions.

Now I have two files.

c2600-ipbasek9-mz.124-17 and c2600-adventerprisek9-mz.124-25d

Which one do I transfer through tftp ??

and when i transfer solarwind shows connected but says transmission failed and could not find the file in root folder. it shows the directory but that's where in my pc i saved the file. In c drive tftp root folder.

Load the file: c2600-ipbasek9-mz.124-17
it is much smaller in size and should fit into the memory you have (and not take as long to copy over).

sagarmistry

clarson wrote: »

Load the file: c2600-ipbasek9-mz.124-17
it is much smaller in size and should fit into the memory you have (and not take as long to copy over).

Got frustrated and took it to repair shop.

Hopefully he can fix it by tomorrow.

Btw guys, spanning tree protocol isn't in ICND1 right??