From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 10:38:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dnvrpop2.dnvr.uswest.net (dnvrpop2.dnvr.uswest.net [206.196.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 765CD37B422 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 57608 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2000 17:38:52 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 57407 invoked by uid 0); 27 Sep 2000 17:38:49 -0000 Received: from odialup232.dnvr.uswest.net (HELO miranda.dnvr.uswest.net) (209.181.67.232) by dnvrpop2.dnvr.uswest.net with SMTP; 27 Sep 2000 17:38:49 -0000 Received: (from loughry@localhost) by miranda.dnvr.uswest.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05372 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:37:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from loughry) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:37:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Joe Loughry Message-Id: <200009271737.LAA05372@miranda.dnvr.uswest.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.5-STABLE freezing up, is BIOS update important? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a 3.5-STABLE system running on a 200 MHz Pentium Pro (Id = 0x617, Stepping = 7, 256 KB cache), on a P6FX1-A motherboard with 128 MB RAM. The system boots fine, and runs fine, but at random intervals it just freezes. No panic, no error messages, but the screen saver is frozen, the machine does not respond to the console keyboard, and it does not respond to pings. If I wait long enough (anywhere from 20 minutes to several hours), sometimes it unfreezes and continues as if nothing happened. It does respond to the reset button, and reboots without any problems, not even complaining about fsck (though it does mention that / was not dismounted properly, of course). I thought it might be heat-related, but a thermocouple on the CPU heat sink says 34 C, and the other chips on the motherboard (Intel PCIset) are not too hot either. The cheap SVGA card is pretty hot, though. My question is, should I try to update the BIOS? I thought FreeBSD didn't even use the BIOS after booting, and this machine boots fine. Any ideas? Thanks. -Joe loughry@uswest.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message