From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 07:06:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0945316A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:06:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from cloudburst.umist.ac.uk (cloudburst.umist.ac.uk [130.88.119.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B7F43DAD for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:05:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@black.lewiz.org) Received: from lh014.halls.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.163.14] helo=yellow.lewiz.org) by cloudburst.umist.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AixQp-0006wN-OX; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:04:43 +0000 Received: from ip31.lewiz.org ([192.168.0.31] helo=black.lewiz.org) by mail.lewiz.org with smtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1AixQu-000OJ4-D7; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:04:48 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 4542 invoked by uid 4001); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:04:34 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:04:34 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson To: anubis Message-ID: <20040120150433.GF1941@lewiz.org> Mail-Followup-To: Lewis Thompson , anubis , Raphael Dinge , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <400C91D7.30809@ohmforce.com> <200401202108.53652.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Y/WcH0a6A93yCHGr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401202108.53652.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.lewiz.org/~lewiz/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Raphael Dinge Subject: Re: Big troubles running FreeBSD on a Shuttle nForce2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:06:24 -0000 --Y/WcH0a6A93yCHGr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:08:53PM +0000, anubis wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:26 am, Raphael Dinge wrote: > > I've installed a long ago FreeBSD 5.1 on my mother's computer which > > is a shuttle with nvidia nforce2 motherboard. The computer crashes > > for reasons I can't explain. Since 5.2 was out, I installed it, and > > the problems are still consistent. > There are a number of issues with this kind of machine and they arent > limited to freebsd. We have a number of these machines running windas > at work. 1 works perfectly and the others are a bit flakey. We had a > long look at this problem and what it comes down to is these machines > have shared memory for the video. They are very fussy about what kind > of ram they use. This is why when you start using the video heavily > there is problems. > > Our good machine used "good" ram and the other funky ones use > unsupported ram. > > There are 2 possible solutions. One solution is to look at the nvidia > site and only use the ram they suggest for igp boards. Second > solution is put in a seperate video card. I am using a stick of Crucial 256MB DDR266 PC2100 RAM. I picked it up a few months ago from www.ebuyer.com for =A329.99. I have no problems with this, so it might be worth checking out. What I'd suggest is swap the RAM from your Shuttle to your Mum's Shuttle and see how you get on. If they switch around you can really be sure it is the RAM. Best wishes, -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --Y/WcH0a6A93yCHGr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFADUOBItq0KFQv7T8RAh6PAJ9uy8EG1vWVfQaAwen3Pio1kZRDBACbB97F lgdaoLb3mEo5baTYlsXzIos= =B+Zl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Y/WcH0a6A93yCHGr--