From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 6 03:45:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA18173 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 03:45:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inreach.com (mail.inreach.com [205.138.224.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA18168 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 03:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov (ppp6212.la.inreach.net [199.107.160.212]) by mail.inreach.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/(InReach)) with SMTP id DAA25893 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 03:44:57 -0700 (PDT) From: dburr@POBoxes.com (Donald Burr) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: more about my hardware problem - could it be EDO related? Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 10:40:36 GMT Organization: InReach Internet Communications Reply-To: dburr@POBoxes.com Message-ID: <33c074f8.24805458@mail.inreach.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/32.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA18169 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk First, thanks to all who have made comments and suggestions to my hardware problems (random crashes, hangs, weird transient error messages from gcc, etc.) In probing around the system, I have discovered another potential problem, and based on some information I've been reading on the Usenet, maybe this is also a part of my overall problem. The memory installed in my machine is a 16MB 60ns 72-pin SIMM module. Nothing terribly unusual about this, except that this is an EDO SIMM. And the motherboard's manual mentions nothing about EDO. Now, I searched around on Usenet, and asked around with some knowledgable friends at various computer stores, and both sources tell me that it (using EDO memory in a non-EDO board) works only some of the time. One person had his entire system fail, and the memory module was actually physically (electricall) damaged. He had to return it. Well, the system hasn't died or burst into flames (yet...), but neither is it working 100% "properly" either. So could this be my problem? And does anyone out there know more about this issue (use of EDO memory in a possibly non-EDO motherboard, etc.) Thanks again for all of your assistance. -- Donald Burr - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 564-1871 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT.