From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 7 9:19:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C61C37B98C for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:19:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA73188; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:19:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:19:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: David Scheidt Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, David Scheidt wrote: >Ah, that tells you have a problem. It unfortunatly, doesn't distinguish >a bad memory module from a bad memory bus. One of my abits blew up a bit >ago with SIGSEGVs, I swapped memory in and around till I got to the point >that I realized that as long as I didn't populate the last DIMM slot, it >worked fine. It's not long for this earth, that machine. Reminds me of the 4-5 SIMM pair on Tyan Tomcat P5 SMP motherboards. They're notorious for not working. I've got a pair of those boards and cannot put exactly 6 SIMMs despite the claims of requiring pairs. It *really* wants SIMMs installed 4 at a time. They were nice boards otherwise though. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message